A Scarf by Request

This was knitted for a friend's husband, T., who asked if I would knit him a scarf. After several emails back and forth, we decided on an A Scarf Askew. They picked out the yarn and mailed it to me. It was kind of fun to have someone just send me yarn to knit with.

 

 

They chose Cascade Ecological Wool, the yarn recommended by the pattern, in colorway #8063. This was the first time I'd ever knit with this yarn. It was nice. You can definitely tell it's wool, but it's not as scratchy as I thought it was going to be. The really nice thing about it is that there is tons of yardage in a skein of this stuff. I think it's something like 478 yards. The scarf was knit on size 8 needles as called for in the pattern. I really like this pattern. I think it's very elegant in its simplicity. I also think that it could almost be reversible because I like the back of the pattern almost as much as I like the front of it.

 

 

The only issue with it is that because it's bascially stockinette stitch with some strategically placed purls, it curls like mad. Here is a pre-blocking picture of the scarf where you can see how badly it's curled, and even in the post blocking picture above, you can see that the edges still want to curl over a little bit.

 

The only pattern modification that I made was to skip the tassles. I got the scarf to the specified pattern length and decided that it would not be long enough to wear in the way that T. wants to wear it. Plus, I think the garter stitch edge that the tassles would have been attached to looks nice just as it is.

 

 

I ended up just knitting the entire skein for this scarf which made it very long. The scarf was much longer after blocking than I had anticipated. In fact, I had to block it in my upstairs hallway because that was the only place that I could find enough floor space to lay it out flat.

 

As you can see, the scarf would be too long for me, but T. is several inches taller than me, so hopefully it won't be too long for him. And yes, I realize this whole getting the scarf too long thing has become a trend for me.