Mom's Scarf
Every beginning knitter knits at least one scarf. I think I knit (and finished) two while I was "a beginner." I started a third one for my mom because, well, I love my enabler mother.
Scarf modeled by the wonderful Alice Humphrey. One family visit to see CMR in SLO during her first or second year, we visited Cambria, as well. Of course, we stopped at the LYS, Ball & Skein (no website, sadly). I saw a scarf, made from the same yarn. I smuggled a skein of yarn home to make a sparkly blue scarf for Mom. The scarf was finished in no time. I was so proud! (And it looked really, really nifty. The picture doesn't capture the subtle color patterning, unfortunately.) After some indeterminate amount of time, I was walking past the scarf and I noticed that something wasn't quite right. Closer inspection proved that some of the stitches were making a run for the cast-on edge. Eek! I can't give my mother faulty knitwear! I ripped that sucker back and started again. The second incarnation was a hooded scarf. The fabric had too much drape, I thought, so I took another trip through the frog pond. The third incarnation, which you see here, was fairly painless. After I rewound the yarn, of course. I knew that one yarn had more yardage than the other, so I painstakingly (literally, it took hours) separated the strands. I think total knitting time was about 3 hours. (No boring stats this time, Gadget. It's a scarf. It took four years from first cast-on to final bind-off.)
Scarf modeled by the wonderful Alice Humphrey. One family visit to see CMR in SLO during her first or second year, we visited Cambria, as well. Of course, we stopped at the LYS, Ball & Skein (no website, sadly). I saw a scarf, made from the same yarn. I smuggled a skein of yarn home to make a sparkly blue scarf for Mom. The scarf was finished in no time. I was so proud! (And it looked really, really nifty. The picture doesn't capture the subtle color patterning, unfortunately.) After some indeterminate amount of time, I was walking past the scarf and I noticed that something wasn't quite right. Closer inspection proved that some of the stitches were making a run for the cast-on edge. Eek! I can't give my mother faulty knitwear! I ripped that sucker back and started again. The second incarnation was a hooded scarf. The fabric had too much drape, I thought, so I took another trip through the frog pond. The third incarnation, which you see here, was fairly painless. After I rewound the yarn, of course. I knew that one yarn had more yardage than the other, so I painstakingly (literally, it took hours) separated the strands. I think total knitting time was about 3 hours. (No boring stats this time, Gadget. It's a scarf. It took four years from first cast-on to final bind-off.)
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