Weekends... a time for me to catch-up on some sleep, to potter around the house, unpack and organise the wool room. The wool room is a tiny room Chez ATU, but as wool is so compressible, I can really cram it in. Unfortunately, a spate of untidiness on my part has meant wool in every room of the house, enough to drive even the most saintly of husbands, bananas.
Red Scarf Project
After an hour or so of house work, I got bored, so I took my tango out for a photo session. If I were to do this scarf again, I would definitely use a larger size needle. I used 4 ply yarn and 3.25mm needles but I think I was knitting to tightly and as a consequence, the scarf isn't as drapey as it should be.
I started this project on the night that I flew to NY. I cast on in the airport lounge waiting for my flight and the photo that I showed 2 weeks ago was my progress from knitting about 3 hours. Obviously, I have no shame, since I was the only person knitting and reviewing documents for work during most of the flight.
Here's a much better close-up of the pattern. Those pictures previously posted, were awful.
In fact, this scarf took me under 9 hours to complete and was worked on during on the flight, and on my commute to to work from Long Island. Now, I'm sure that I can cut an hour off of that if I went up to a 3.75 mm needle.
I'm also contributing this to the Red Scarf Project.
I've reworked the bottom edging using a short row technique to emphasize the leave design, which I think works better on the heavier yarn that I used. This was made with just 2 skeins of Cascade 220. It's kind of a proof of concept, since Tina wrote me about using a heavier, more affordable yarn. Cascade is priced as mid-range yarn and I paid just under $16 for the 2 skeins in NY. Given NYC prices, I would bet that you should be able to find it cheaper.
Now I would had finished this on the flight back to blighty if I didn't 'decide' on the whim to short-row shape the edging. I'm not 100% pleased with the ending, but I know why I'm not pleased so it'll mean I'll have to knit another Kiri to see if my theory is right.
Kiri in worsted weight/heavy DK on 5.00mm takes about 10 hours to finish... much quicker than the Kiri in KSH which took over 20 hours. I can't wait until it dries so that I can see the drape.
I'm surprised you were allowed to knit on the flight. Whenever I've flown to the States I've put my knitting in the hold.
Posted by: Annie Brown at February 21, 2005 01:41 PMI guess you can knit Birch/Kiri in your sleep now? Knit the hubby some socks to 'shut him up'. You got some Regia Silk?
Posted by: valentina at February 20, 2005 03:41 AMHi Polly, they both look wonderful. Amazing how changing the weight of yarn produces such a different effect. And two quick projects too!
Dawn :)
Posted by: dawn at February 19, 2005 06:25 PMBeautiful scarves, hope they will get a good price for them.... And you had no troubles knitting in the airport or on the flight?
Will you add the new edge to the pattern? It is on my future to-knit-list.