puppyluv
02-07-2007, 02:06 AM
Well I spent a solid day knitting on "fair isle jazz" from Scarf Style. I was so excited to finally start the cable section, but I decided to do a quick steam block to straighten it out, still on the needles.
Guess what?
I hate it.
It's beautiful. It's just waaayyy too wide.
Once I had it folded properly (it has a striped backing to fold up and hide the fair isle backside) it is just so thick and huge. HUGE.
It is twice as wide as any scarf should be!!!
It's my fault for not thinking this out, maybe, but I did read the dimensions. I just didn't stop to think about how thick it would be, once you fold the backing up, and the fair isle is already double thick with all the yarn floats!! Add the backing to that and it's like a triple thick nightmare.
I think what tricked me is the close up photo of the fair isle work: which is only HALF the actual scarf. Too bad the other photo is so blurry.
I thought "it doesn't look so wide". But it's only half, nicely cropped off and I thought it was smaller than it is.
The thing is; a 12" scarf isn't bad until it's so thick it can't move/bend/scrunch.
So...I may just throw this in the wash, it'd look so cute felted up and maybe I'll sew it into a purse or just hang it on the wall, it's so adorable with all those colors.
I knit it in brown/tan/pink/lt.pink/cream/celery/celadon (highland wool from Elann)
I wish this pattern could be made smaller, but it really can't with all the cables...
Oh well live and learn!
Guess what?
I hate it.
It's beautiful. It's just waaayyy too wide.
Once I had it folded properly (it has a striped backing to fold up and hide the fair isle backside) it is just so thick and huge. HUGE.
It is twice as wide as any scarf should be!!!
It's my fault for not thinking this out, maybe, but I did read the dimensions. I just didn't stop to think about how thick it would be, once you fold the backing up, and the fair isle is already double thick with all the yarn floats!! Add the backing to that and it's like a triple thick nightmare.
I think what tricked me is the close up photo of the fair isle work: which is only HALF the actual scarf. Too bad the other photo is so blurry.
I thought "it doesn't look so wide". But it's only half, nicely cropped off and I thought it was smaller than it is.
The thing is; a 12" scarf isn't bad until it's so thick it can't move/bend/scrunch.
So...I may just throw this in the wash, it'd look so cute felted up and maybe I'll sew it into a purse or just hang it on the wall, it's so adorable with all those colors.
I knit it in brown/tan/pink/lt.pink/cream/celery/celadon (highland wool from Elann)
I wish this pattern could be made smaller, but it really can't with all the cables...
Oh well live and learn!