Summer Sunshine*

Pattern: Stolen from a scarf knit by Jocelyn of Knitting Linguist. She was kind enough to pass along the stitch. (my ravelry project)
Materials: 350 or so yards of Robyn's Nest Flock of Feathers Sock in the colorway YarnPig.
Made for: me
Needle: US6 32" Addi Turbo Circular
Start Date: 16 May originally, frogged and restarted 5 June 2009
Completion Date: 12 June 2009 (I think...)
Size: 14x60 without fringe, 14x84 with Fringe

Notes: Jocelyn was kind enough to pass this stitch pattern along to me. I think I knit it up on smaller needles because my lace didn't open quite as much as hers. I'm really pleased with this bit of sunshine though. Its lovely and lightweight and it will make me quite happy when I go to wear a scarf again come October or November when the air at night is far cooler then the air of the day.

I really wanted a particular kind of fringing on this scarf. I wanted the same openness as the pattern and I love the pretty diamonds I've seen on other scarves so I cut up some of the remaining yarn I had and set about figuring out how to do this. I cut up a bunch of 36 inch long pieces to use as fringe. I folded two in half to attach as fringe for each three-quarter inch of the scarf width. Then I take two strands and tie them to two of the strands from the piece of fringe next to them. Repeating across and down gets a diamond pattern. I'm really pleased with it.

This is the scarf that I restarted three times. I frogged the first version because I couldn't figure out what needle I used. I had a vague remembrance of having changed the needle (so I could use it for the Brea mod - finished and a post is coming soon!). The needle I thought I used, the needle on the knitting, and the needle I indicated on my Ravelry page where not at all the same size. So I just decided to start over. So I recast on a BUNCH of stitches and knit what I thought was about a third of the skein, decided that I wasn't going to have enough yarn for the length I wanted, frogged, recast on again with about 2/3 the number of stitches. I got to the length I wanted just fine with about half left. Suppose the second cast on amount would have been fine as far as length.

In case you are missing things on Laci. Its the only picture I got on her where it looked decent. I think thats because she's still wearing her stupid outfit we put her in for the shawl photo. Really I think I need to work on her wardrobe some.

* This is ironic because its a cloudy rainy day today.