Finally finished
Comments (29) With this darn scarf!
It felt like it took for-freaking-ever! I think it felt that way because:
- I didn’t care to work with this yarn (Patons Metallic in Blue Steel*). It kept snagging on my fingers and that was making me bonkers. It was also easy to accidentally knit through the metallic mesh, revealing the black yarn underneath it.
- This was my first time using this pattern, and I didn’t fully understand it until I’d been working on it a few days. With patterns I’ve used a few times, I become familiar with what the stitches should look like as I am working on it, and it’s easier to fix mistakes because I can tell something is amiss. Er… not so much the case here, at first! The end of the scarf is definitely prettier than the start, but you can’t tell by looking at it… from far away… if you have bad eyesight.
- I was eager to finish this and start something new. Mica was telling me she heard that a hat may be a better beginner knitting project than a scarf, because it goes faster. I think I would agree (although I haven’t made a hat yet). I want things to move quickly, apparently.
All in all, it didn’t take too terribly long – I started it on a Wednesday morning and finished it on a Thursday night a week later. And although I kind of hated it when I was working on it, and thought it was fug, I actually liked it a lot when I tried on the finished product! I hope my mom does too! It’ll ship off to her today for Mother’s Day. I will laugh if today happens to be the one day she reads my blog and sees this!
It’s actually my maternal grandmother’s fault that I was so eager to get this scarf finished and start something new. Ha ha. She called me last Friday and was raving about how much she loves the dishcloths I made her, and asked if she could pay me to make some for her to use as gifts for her friends! Sure thing! Dishcloths are fun and quick to make! And this meant I could go get some fun new yarn colors to try:
Note: she asked for six washcloths and I bought enough yarn for fourteen, ha! (that yarn on the top is to make a scarf like the one above for her).
Of course, I am not going to make my grandma pay me for labor, but I think I will ask for a few dollars to cover the yarn (it was on sale, woo hoo!).
This is getting hella long but I have to share this tidbit about my grandmother. For as long as I can remember, she’s always had a damp washcloth inside of a plastic bag, in her purse. Whenever we were sticky as kids, there she was, to clean our hands and faces. Why does she still carry it? Ha, because my cousins’ ages are staggered enough that she is still looking over very young children, to this day!
So I was thinking of that when I first made her the monogrammed washcloths. But I knew she would use them for dishes, because she prefers a washcloth to wash dishes… and thinks it’s an abomination (slight exaggeration, written jokingly) that we use a sponge at our house. She actually asked me last Friday, “So does this mean you are using washcloths at home now to do your dishes?” “Er… no, grandma, I haven’t made myself any yet…” Ha ha ha. “Oh. I suppose you put most things in the dishwasher, anyway.” Buuuuuuuuuuuuurn. Ha!
*Totally missed opportunity to do a Zoolander face when posing for these photos, ha ha.
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