This scarf took me a disgracefully long time to knit. I'm not sure why, maybe because I was knitting it for someone else and it would not have been my choice of colour.
Maybe it was because it was a long rectangle and I find them boring.
Possibly it was because I was unsure of the dye effect.
The scarf took one skein of Cherry Tree Hill sock yarn in a colour called Silver Birch. The scarf started mainly cream at one end and ended up with only cream highlights at the other end. The colour structure changed at the halfway mark and I can't help thinking that this would have made an odd pair of socks.
I also finished Ishbel - then thought I'd made a mistake on the last two patterns and was about to rip it out. Tonight I've been looking at completed photos on Ravelry and decided that it was obviously meant to look that way so will be leaving it! Photos to follow.
On the new knitting front I've started Helene Rush's Diagonal Square Tee using some Debbie Bliss Stella that had been marinating in the stash. I'm past the mitred section and onto the stocking stitch - probably just as well as I'm back on the pain pills which usually means I'm liable to make mistakes.
Posted by Yvonne at May 13, 2009 12:03 AMI can imagine it was a total pain to knit - those colours really aren't you, but - BUT now knitted it is lovely and I bet there is a colour in there to go with everything the recipient could ever want and I bet they will love and treasure it for eons. Sometimes the most miserable knits turn into the happiest wearables - I so don't know why that is
Posted by: juliet at May 13, 2009 09:05 PMYvonne that yarn would have made very odd sock indeed. But the pattern looks lovely. I'm sure it has the right effect for a scarf.
Sorry to hear you're back on the pain pills. May it disappear soon.
A few of us at the Perth show this weekend decided we needed to nominate you as a national knitting treasure - hope you don't mind :-)
Posted by: Helen at May 13, 2009 08:41 PM