Hey, thanks to all who responded and signed up for my challenge - I hope you enjoy it and get some satisfaction out of it! Keep checking back here - Monday is usually a good day to blog, so look for more tips and patterns and updates weekly (or so)!
I finished up my circular scarf - I used two and a half balls for a total of 1280 rows and it measures 60 inches in length - it turned out quite
nice. I washed it to let the alpaca loft and fill out a bit so that it doesn't
look quite so thin-ish. I'll tell you the truth now - I started out to do 20
rows circular, 2 rows FNR and quickly realized that was a bad choice because
you were adding 22 for the repeat and it made more sense to knit 18 rows
circular, 2 rows zigzag so that every 20 rows was a full repeat and then I
got carried away and all of a sudden had 26 rows circular...I'm not a
rip-er-out-er, I admit it - yes, I altered the pattern rather than have to
de-knit...AND, I knew it would happen again so I then 'planned' to do random
amounts between zigzags, varying from 18 to 28 to yes, some 38 rows between -
it's all good! I evened out as I was coming to the end portion so that both
ends hanging down together would look the same - in fact, it turned out so nice
that if I were a scarf person, I'd keep this one and have to knit another!But, onto bigger things. On Friday I dashed off a quick to-do list as some things are creeping up on me - I hate to get behind or owe someone something...February and March are big birthday months for me. By this morning the list had grown to more than 8 items - 2 girlfriends who would be heartbroken if I didn't give them a pair of socks; 2 grandkids that kind of look forward to something from Grama (hoodies it is! a red MFH for Nate - he is darn near as tall as I am - I know you're laughing, but he is only going to be 12! and, something in turquoise for Rhiana); my niece Lauren is expecting (???what to do - her or baby?); 2 sister birthdays and the next red scarf is due Feb 15!! Good thing I'm up with deadlines! I'd better get knitting! ttyl ;-)
I'm so glad you posted that your finished scarf was 60"....for some reason I thought it had to be 6ft and I couldn't believe my yarn had shrunk that much when I washed it! So I was steaming and trying to stretch it, and now it's 64". I was just coming back here to ask if that would be close enough to 6ft. LOL!
ReplyDeleteI also thought about doing the zigzag rows at random times, for the same reason. Next time, I might do 38 rows between them. 18 goes by too fast LOL! I'll post on my blog soon.
My daughter (10) wants to make some too. She was a little big-eyed when I said it had to be 6ft, so she'll be happy it's now only 5ft :)