Wed 31 Dec 2003
Completed: November, 2003
Lion Brand Yarn / Homespun
98% Acrylic, 2% Polyester
Color No. 302 – Colonial [1 skein]
Color No. 3336 – Barrington [1 skein]
Needles: 10.5
Seed stitch
Although I don’t wear blues and purples very often at all, I’m drawn to the colors when they’re in the form of yarn (probably a good thing, since I’ve been told I need a little more color in my wardrobe; this scarf will be a gift, but I do have a particularly colorful scarf project in the queue; maybe I’ll keep that one). I thought these two shades of yarn would look nice together–Colonial is a mostly royal blue blend, and Barrington a deep purply-blue blend–and the result is another double-strand yarn scarf.
This is my second Homespun yarn project, and I do like the way this stuff knits up. Although this yarn handles a garter stitch very nicely, I tried seed stitching this one (for me, the lazy seed stitch: K1, P1, repeat for all rows using an odd number of stitches). The result is a little stiffer than the garter stitch but it produces a nice nubby texture.
This scarf measures about 4 ft. long, and about 8 inches wide. When I make scarves for myself, I usually do great long skinny ones. This one, however, is for a friend who is an attorney, so it’s a bit more subdued in length. This way, she can pair it with a suit if she wishes, or with something more casual.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:03 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. 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. [...]