Angled Scarf
As you can see, I have finally completed the Angled Scarf. The Crystal Palace Bamboo needles helped it go a bit faster, though I would still have preferred aluminum.
An interesting note about the Elsebeth Lavold Angora: the knitted yarn got fluffier as it was handled, though the yarn coming off the needles wasn’t particularly so.
- Yarn:
- Elsebeth Lavold Angora (60% angora/20% wool/20% polyamide) » 2 hanks of Cherry Red (#010) and 1 hank each of Burgundy Red (#009), and Midnight Blue (#007).
- Needle:
- #9 Am/5.5mm
- Gauge:
- Approximately 17st/4in or 10cm
- Pattern:
- CO 37 in Cherry Red.
Moss Stitch (5 rows)
1. K1, p2tog, *k1, p1*, k&p into same st, sl1 p-wise.
2. *K1, p1*, sl1 p-wise.
3. K1, k2tog, *p1, k1*, p&k into same st, sl1 p-wise.
4. K2, *p1, k1*, sl1 p-wise.
5. repeat #1.
Main pattern (The color changes every 15 rows, i.e., the new color is introduced on alternating sides).
6. K1, (p7, k1, M1R, k4, k2tog) twice, p7, sl1 p-wise.
7. K1, (ssk, k4, M1R, k1, p7) twice, ssk, k4, M1R, k1, sl1 p-wise.
Repeat rows 6 & 7 until row 230.- Color Changes
- 21. Switch to Burgundy Red
36. Cherry Red
51. Midnight Blue
66. Cherry Red
81. Burgundy Red
96. Cherry Red
111. Midnight Blue
126. Cherry Red
141. Burgundy Red
156. Cherry Red
171. Midnight Blue
186. Cherry Red
201. Burgundy Red
216. Cherry Red
231. repeat #1.
232. repeat #4.
233. repeat #3.
234. repeat #2.
235. repeat #1.
BO.
Detail of scarf »
After wet blocking this and while waiting for it to dry, I amused myself yesterday by teaching myself how to populate an HTML form from a MySQL database using PHP. That pretty much sums up the day, except for the hour or so I spent at the gym—my first time in the gym in about a year. These love handles have got to go.
This came Friday, thirteen hanks of wool from Beaverslide Dry Goods, two sampler packs of wool/mohair, which is the rainbow effect, and the one in the foreground, wool, which just looked like a something I’d like, which I do. While J might argue that I don’t need more yarn, since I don’t have any place to put it, I like having enough—in quantity and variety—to choose from when I want to start something new.
It would make a lovely rainbow sweater don’t you think? *barf*
There is, unfortunately, a slight floral scent to the yarn, probably from the wool wash used. It’s not overpowering and most people would find it pleasant, but J and I are both scent-adverse. Break out the Zip-Locs.
I was amazed at this:
I have never seen so many stamps and so many denominations on one package. Looks cool.
Different subject altogether
On the advice of my newly acquired cardiologist—isn’t aging wonderful?—I ordered fish, cod to be specific, at dinner last night instead of the hanger steak or pasta in cream sauce. People eat this? Slimy and nauseating.
Tuna and salmon are fine. Swordfish would be okay if it weren’t endangered. Cod is going to take a bit more effort.
February 5th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
The new yarn stash looks great. I’ll have to go check out the link now!
Cod=slimy=yes. Very. And I live in New England. It’s only good if it’s deep fried.
February 5th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
I love cod, but if you’re looking for something less “slimy” how about halibut?
I would walk a mile for fresh salmon. So glad I live on the ocean. Well not ON the ocean, my stash would get wet, but you know what I mean.
And I love your new wool. Tell J. it is wise, rather than excessive. (He’d faint at the sight of my stash …)
February 5th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Great Scarf…now is this your design? I love it!
I love your recent yarn acquisitions…but am not a big fan of any rainbow garment, except, perhaps, Mork’s suspenders.
And having grown up in NE, I will most likely never eat Cod or Scrod again…to many Lenten meals of cod with breadcrumbs…UGH. Codcakes at The Summer Shack, I’ll eat though! They’re delicious. Dave’s right, I would only eat them as fish and chips.
And with respect to my stash, and Rabbitch’s comment…thankfully Ron doesn’t really have a sense of what my stash really amounts to…he’s freak! LOL. Just wait though, now the roving stash begins.
February 6th, 2006 at 11:12 am
Wow, the scarf is great. Interesting to knit but manly enough to wear.
I used to work with a woman who had a collection of oversize envelopes with beautiful arrays of stamps. She kept them in her bottom file drawer at her desk. Others in the office got into it and we would give them to her when they came in. I had forgotten completely about it, that was around 1997.
Cheers!
February 7th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
That is a really pretty scarf!! Came here trhough sean
February 19th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
love the angled scarf — it’s rockin.