The scarf I made for the Secret Scarf Exchange (I did mention joining, but nothing after that).
I knew what pattern I wanted to make almost from the beginning.
My scarf pal said she liked jewel tones, so I picked out some Karaoke from Southwest Trading Company in Mermaid Mix to make it with:
Then I got started on the pattern I picked out...
And posted a little teaser on the Exchange's blog about it... there is no way to tell from this picture what is going to happen with this scarf.
See... I'll bet you didn't see that coming ;)
And then it goes like this:
Oh, how fun!
Here's the finished scarf:
My scarf pal said she really liked it, so I'm pleased.
The Karaoke is a pleasure to knit with (um... Christy... not to bash your favorite, but), much more so that Noro Kureyon. Almost no "vegetal matter" to pick out, and it's even, rather than thick and thin. It's also much less scratchy... very soft and wearable.
The pattern is Kureopatora's Snake, by Kim at String or Nothing. Check out the original to see how wildly different it can look in another yarn:
It is both interesting enough to keep your attention, and easy enough for a very novice knitter (the most difficult thing about it is a couple of variations of kfb)... you don't even really have to cast on or off... you start and end with one stitch.
There were only a couple of things I didn't like... and one could've been avoided for the most part.
The yarn didn't consistently go all the way through the full color repeat as it should have (either the skein was a little short, or in one case, I had a mess of knots and short lengths of yarn in the center of the skein), so I did a lot of cutting and splicing to make the colors flow nicely.
The second problem was that k1, p1 ribbing is the worst to have to weave ends into... I mostly ended up having to do duplicate stitch because there just isn't anywhere to go back and forth hiding the stitches (like you can on garter stitch or stockinette) as you usually do to weave the ends in. If I had been smart, I would've spit spliced all the ends together as I went along, but no... I had to do it the hard way and ended up spit-wetting, anyways, after I wove in the ends as best I could to felt it a little in order to keep those little tails from working their way out.*
* Yup... still the queen of the run-on sentences.
