Scarfing
November 24th, 2004 at 9:12 pm (scarf)
I’m making progress on my cross stitch scarf. Here’s a shot of what it looks like with the four wraps per stitch on the needle:
That is a lot of stitches (264*4 = 1056). I read a hint that you should use a double sized needle for this row, then you only have to wrap twice instead of four times. Gee, that would have been nice to know! I’ve loosend up my wraps quite a bit so they slide over the needle better. I think I’m over halfway done with the scarf now. It’s easy knitting except for the row after the 4 wraps row. Then you have to concentrate on slipping and holding those huge stitches in line as you cross them over and then knit them in the proper order.
I can’t decide if I like the color combos or not (you can only see part of the colors here). The pattern calls for Color A and Color B. I have seen only a few variations of this scarf. See here and here. I wonder what it would look like with a solid and a variegated. So far I feel like I’m only really knitting with one color even though it’s really two.
Cashmere is Yummy
I have another scarf in the works too. So far it’s just balls of (cashmere-ish) yarn and a needle. I’ll take a shot once I get it going.
Oh - and I haven’t had a buy a single needle (yet) for my scarf knitting, despite having only knit three scarves total (including this one). Yay!
