People tell me I’m a fast knitter, and I say that I am not a fast knitter, I just do it a lot. Well yesterday I knit four feet worth of scarves, so maybe there’s some truth to the fast knitting thing.
I worked on a Red Scarf yesterday for that Red Scarf Project I told you about. Well I got three feet of it done:
And the learned that the scarves need to be knit out of DK OR LESS gauge yarn so that it fits in the mailers. I ship yarn all over the world, I KNOW about fitting into mailers let me tell you…
Rejected! I was pretty bummed but wanted to make a red scarf. Can you believe that I have NO red DK yarn? I didn’t want to use my Christmas sport weight, that’s for socks. I didn’t want to make a fingering weight scarf. I do want this done by the 15th after all. So I rootled in the stash.
I found this DK test dye skein I did before I opened Slackford Studio. It’s in Voilet and Fire Red. I like the color combo and I am using Yarn Harlot’s One Row Scarf Pattern (genius, by the way-so simple, so effective).
Pretty, no? There is not enough yarn to make a 60″ scarf, so I will knit up half of it, then graft on a solid red or purple, and then knit about two feet and re-join the varigated. It’ll work.
I’m already looking through my Barbara Walker books for simple and effective stitch patterns for scarf #2, err #3. The big red one will go to a Christmas Present. I didn’t know I was doing Christmas knitting but there you go. I know someone who loves that color. I will also make a giant braid hat. And write up the patterns for both. I’ve already got the scarf pattern written up.
And if this isn’t enough knitting content for you, I did finished this on Thanksgiving Day:
Michael’s annual hat. He’s already worn it a few times this week. It’s turned a bit chilly.
So I suppose there is a bit of truth in the fast knitting supposition. I stand corrected.
