Emily Ivey and the Knitting Workshop Present: The Fund-Raiser Hat and Scarf

The pattern for this Delightful Set can be found here in html format. I am adding a link to my Patterns page in case you need it a year from now and find combing through the archives Tedious.

I gotta tell ya: I just love this yarn! The Andean Silk is Dreamy. My stitches are well-defined even though the garmet has developed a delicious little halo. The best part is that Andean Silk creates a wonderful finished object that looks like it cost a lot more than it did. It blocked beautifully – almost crisply – but maintained a fabulous drape. I will absolutely use it again!

Once I was finished with the cabled hat and scarf, I immediately cast on for the Hogwarts Scarf (Library Knitting #2). As I was working on the first few rounds, I started thinking (as I occasionally do) that this was not enough yarn to make a really long, fat scarf. Turns out, it’s not enough yarn to make a really long, fat scarf. I am illiterate and somehow managed to misread the yarn requirements and only order half as much yarn as I need. The new stuff is sure to be a different dyelot. Sure, I could have called KnitPicks and begged them to paw through piles of yarn checking numbers, and I probably should have. But I am embarrassed about this whole thing (which is why I have decided to share the incident here, with only a Few Personal Friends). So I didn’t call. Instead, I have convinced myself that different dyelots is no big deal: it’s a striped scarf, right? I’ll just stagger the dyelots and maybe no one will notice. How’s that for a Plan? And the supplemental yarn may not even make it here in time (I’ve got to finish it by Thursday week) so the whole dilemma may be moot anyway. If I miss the deadline, I think I’ll make it up anyway for M’s sister. She will be the envy of her high school. All the Cool Kids have hand-knit Hogwarts Scarves.

The Up Side to the the Yarn *ahem* Difficulties, is that I have had a bunch of time to work on M’s cardigan. Which I am having a very good time making.

You can’t tell from the picture, but I am past the armhole shaping and in the neck decrease Home Streatch. Of that piece of cardigan anyway. There are still two sleeves, the other front and the back to go. No to mention the front and neck bands. And the seaming. The miles and miles and miles of seaming.