Kimono Scarf

This is what I've been doing to amuse myself lately. It's a scarf in a pattern adapted from Folk Shawls. It's the pattern for the Kimono shawl, an easy 10+1 repeat pattern with garter edges.

I'm knitting it on US 7 needles with a nice Peruvian merino by a company called Mirasol. The yarn is called Hacho and the colorway is #306. It has a nice, tight twist. One 50g ball yielded 12" in length (including the border), so I anticipate having a scarf that is 60" long when I'm done as I have only 5 balls of this wonderful wool. I'm not sure how wide it will be when I block it out, but I think it will be near to 12".

Monet Scarf

This silk scarf was dyed in the splatter method with a variety of colors. I like to call it the Monet scarf because it looks like an impressionist painting.

Mardi Gras Scarf

This is a silk scarf dyed with the Mardi Gras colors.

Manos del Uruguay Scarf

This is done with two skeins of the silk and wool blend of Manos del Uruguay yarn, one in a solid blue-grey and the other in a variegated that included the same blue-grey color. On a US 7 needle, I cast on an uneven number of stitches and knit back and forth as follows:

Row 1 (solid color): *K1, Sl 1 with yarn in front* across, end K1. Turn work.

Row 2 (solid color): Purl all sts. Turn work.

Row 3 (variegated color): *K1, Sl 1 with yarn in front* across, end K1. Turn work.

Row 4 (variegated color): Knit all sts. Turn work.

The left image shows the side with Rows 1 and 3, the right image shows the side with Rows 2 and 4. Frankly, I like the right image best!

Confessions

I didn't frog the Manos hat. I finished knitting it last night. It and the scarf are in a bag with a nice note for my regular doctor who has taken good care of me and my DH for a few years now.

Also, I started work on a blue scarf for a Harry Potter friend. It's all acrylic yarn since she's allergic to wool and other animal fibers. I shouldn't have started something new, but it hoped to get it done before winter finishes flying through the midwest.

I have about 12 more rows before I start the toe decreases on the HoofleFoofle socks.

F.O.s!

I finished a scarf from my stash! I'll post a photo as soon as I have a camera ready.

I finished one of the three commissioned Christmas stockings. I'm about halfway into the second one.

I've got one Fire-On-The-Mountain sock finished. One of the Cherry Tree Hill Java coloraway socks is finished and the second one is started.

The Ugly Scarf

OK, so have you ever gotten some yarn that you thought at first was great then decided it was the ugliest stuff you'd ever seen? And you still can't bring yourself to chuck it? This is Trekking XXL in color 143 (orange/red/brown). I'd gotten a bag of Trekking XXL yarn in a kit to make a sweater, except that I had no intention of knitting the sweater. I just wanted all of that sock yarn. So, there were two balls of this hideous stuff inside. At first I thought, "Oh, these will be hilarious when knit up!" Now I'm thinking of letting the cats play with it. In their litterbox.

But, no, I've started knitting it. It's a scarf in the feather-and-fan stitch. I'm holding two strands together and knitting it on US 7 straights. I'll give it to charity when I'm done. After all, it's wool and it's washable. It ought to keep someone warm.

Does it count as charity if you'd never wear the thing in the first place?