AnreeAce
03-08-2006, 08:25 PM
I finished this scarf a couple of weeks ago, but I don't own a digital camera, so I had to wait for a friend to take these pics for me.
I'm not sure how long this took, it all blended together after a while. I must say, I was astounded by how long it is. I can't believe I made a scarf taller than myself! It's strange, when I was about 3/4 of the way through, I just wanted to get it off the needles and around my neck (twice!), but after I bound off and wove in the ends, I moped around for a couple of days and had a hard time settling on my next project.
I got the pattern out of Basic Knitting by Leigh Ann Berry. She called for two strands of fingerling weight but I was too intimidated by how tiny it was. ':shock:' I ended up stranding two skeins of sport-weight sock yarn, and I think I did OK.
Learning how to work with two strands and how do do a semi-lacey pattern at the same time was quite a challenge. I ripped out about four inches of it two or three times before I read some advice to a new knitter on this forum. "It's handmade for heavens sake! You're not a machine, don't try to be one." After that I calmed down a little bit, gave myself a break, and just kept working on it. No, it's not perfect, but I made it, me, with my own hands.
Anyway, here's the pics. I don't know any knitters here at home yet, so y'all get to be my knitting circle. I can't tell you how much I've learned here, and what a wonderful resource this forum has been for me.
Best to all,
Andrea
Oh boy, there goes the time! Gotta get the brownies out of the oven!
I'm not sure how long this took, it all blended together after a while. I must say, I was astounded by how long it is. I can't believe I made a scarf taller than myself! It's strange, when I was about 3/4 of the way through, I just wanted to get it off the needles and around my neck (twice!), but after I bound off and wove in the ends, I moped around for a couple of days and had a hard time settling on my next project.
I got the pattern out of Basic Knitting by Leigh Ann Berry. She called for two strands of fingerling weight but I was too intimidated by how tiny it was. ':shock:' I ended up stranding two skeins of sport-weight sock yarn, and I think I did OK.
Learning how to work with two strands and how do do a semi-lacey pattern at the same time was quite a challenge. I ripped out about four inches of it two or three times before I read some advice to a new knitter on this forum. "It's handmade for heavens sake! You're not a machine, don't try to be one." After that I calmed down a little bit, gave myself a break, and just kept working on it. No, it's not perfect, but I made it, me, with my own hands.
Anyway, here's the pics. I don't know any knitters here at home yet, so y'all get to be my knitting circle. I can't tell you how much I've learned here, and what a wonderful resource this forum has been for me.
Best to all,
Andrea
Oh boy, there goes the time! Gotta get the brownies out of the oven!