Shhh... be vewy, vewy quiet...
I'm hunting an assistant professor in accounting position.
I decided a while back that I should make some lace scarves to wear with suits when I am doing (hopefully) job interviews next fall. I have since decided it's going to be hard to figure out a way to wear the scarves I'm making with the styles of interview suits I have, but I'll still have some beautiful lace scarves to wear to work. This is actually the second one I've made. It's made out of Jade Sapphire 2 ply 100% Cashmere in the Camo colorway. I love the colors in this yarn and it's amazingly soft, and there's just something I love about the idea of a lace camoflouge scarf. I've been calling it my "job hunting scarf" and one of the ladies in my knitting group pointed out that I really want to stand out rather than blend in when looking for a job. I have some hunter's orange sock yarn, so maybe I'll make my next scarf in that... probably not.
Because this is a pretty varigated yarn, I wanted a nice simple lace pattern, so I chose the Lucious Lace Scarf pattern. The pattern and the yarn worked together really nicely. Between how simple the pattern was and the varigation in the yarn, it was very forgiving and hid mistakes very well. The only thing that I don't like about this scarf is the length. I used up all of the yarn that I had, but I would like the scarf to be a little longer. I also can't figure out why it's not longer. The picture of the scarf in the pattern looks so much longer than mine and even though I didn't use the pattern yarn, my yarn was the same weight and had the same yardadge on the skein and I knitted it with the same size needles. I even narrowed the scarf by one set of pattern stitches and did four additional lace repeats on the length. The only thing that I can figure out is that the scarf on the pattern looks to be very heavily blocked and with the gauziness of my yarn, I really liked how the pattern made the scarf sort of wavy, so I just very lightly blocked mine.
A couple of final pictures. I borrowed a photographer's backdrop from a friend of mine to take pictures of M. in her dance costumes from this year, so I had D. take the pictures of me modeling the scarf in front of the backdrop while I had it up. So here's a picture of me modeling the scarf and then one of the pictures of M. just because she is so darn cute.
I'm not going to be knitting much over the next few weeks because of summer teaching (boo), but I have three projects on the needles, so hopefully I'll be able to finish up at least a couple of those during summer school. We'll see. I have big plan for big projects that I want to get to.
