Thu 27 Nov 2003
Completed: November, 2002
Lion Brand Yarn / Homespun
98% Acrylic, 2% Polyester [2 skeins]
Needles: 10.5
Garter stitch
This is a fun scarf made from Lion Brand’s Homespun yarn, an easy-care, crinkly yarn which adds this lovely lumpy texture when knitted.
Using a single strand didn’t seem thick enough for a scarf, but I recalled fellow knitter Ericka using two strands of yarn simultaneously in one of her projects. I gave that a try with this scarf and found the resulting work thick and spongy, perfect for a cold-weather muffler.
This scarf measures a tad over 8 ft. long, and about 5 1/2 inches wide.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:04 am
[...] So I went to my stash. There was a period of time a while back when I was not so good at doing gauge swatches and I purchased a holy sh*tload of Lion Brand’s Homespun to make a sweater, with which I grew disenchanted. It sat on my needles for several years, during which time I also made various other smaller Homespun projects (like this, and this, and this.) (Oh, and this. I call this my Lion Brand period.). Since I had the same yarn in least six different colors, in whole and partial skeins, I thought they might possibly be good candidates for this scarf. They weren’t necessarily colors I’d bring together, but since they were all the same texture it might work. [...]