Love at First Knit
My friend S. was making a scarf that I just fell in love with. It's a narrowed version of the Lady Eleanor Stole from the book Scarf Style. I had to make one myself. This is a really easy knit once you get started, but when you first start out, it just looks like you are just making a big mess. I probably would have ripped it out and given up if S. hadn't been there to assure me that I wasn't screwing it up.
I absolutely love the way it turned out. It's going to be hard to give it up, but my plan is to give to someone as a Christmas gift. I will have an easier time knowing that I have purchased the yarn to make myself the full-sized stole. I'm not really a stole kind of person, but S. suggested it would be a good thing to make and keep in the office for chilly days. Of course my office right now tends to run hot rather than cold, but all I needed was some sort of weak justification for knitting it.
Anyway, this scarf is knitted out of 4 skeins of Noro Silk Garden, colorway 255, on size 8 needles. I had 5 skeins of the yarn, so I decided to use the
left over skein to make a One Skein Noro Hat. I'm not quite as happy with it as I am with the scarf. It's tiny and while I love the Noro yarn for the entrelac stitch pattern (like in the scarf), I don't really like the Noro striping. This is the first time I had knit a hat from the top down and I didn't feel comfortable with how to neatly close the hole at the top of the hat once I cast-off. Plus I just screwed up at some point and lost a stitch. I picked it back up, but there is a little hole there in the stitch pattern. Anyway, the plan was for the hat to go along with the scarf in the christmas gift, but I'm thinking now that I might just keep it for myself or see if my daughter wants it. I'm a little more picky about errors in things I'm going to gift than in something I'm just going to use myself.
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