2 posts tagged “knitting”
The name of this pattern is actually My So Called Scarf, which I have never really gotten. I tried to connect it back to that old tv show My So Called Life, but it has nothing to do with the scarf pattern name. There is a story behind the pattern that I think is supposed to be the origin of the name, but it still didn't make a lot of sense to me. Regardless, this is another project marked off of my Christmas knitting list. I made this scarf with Manos Del Uruguay in colorway #118.
Manos is a very popular yarn for this scarf because the varying thick and thin texture of the yarn and the varigated colorways really show off the stitch pattern. Purple is not really my color, but I do really like this colorway. I like the contrast between the so dark that it's almost black dark purple and the light tan. This is knitted on size 11 needles and once you get the hang of the stitch pattern you can pretty much knit on auto pilot, so it really flies off the needles. I also limited myself to two skeins of yarn for this scarf, so it is a much more reasonable length than my last two scarves. I have two skeins of the yarn left that were going to be a hat, but neither of the hat patterns that I was going to make panned out the way I thought they would, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that yarn now.
My friend S. who taught me how to knit and who has been coming over on a weekly basis since January to knit and watch British television with me is about to finish up her degree and has taken a job at a university in Indiana, so she'll be moving this week. I decided to knit her a pair of Rose Tyler Wristwarmers in one of the school colors of her new university for a going away gift. Of course the problem with knitting something as a gift for S. is that she reads my blog and looks at my Ravelery account, so I've had to be very careful about keeping any mention of these off of the internet until I gave them to her. I started these back in February, but because I had to be so secretive about them and because I was pretty burnt out on the pattern after finishing the pair that I made for myself , the knitting was pretty slow going and I just finished them up last week.
These were basically done exactly the same as the pair I made for myself. I knitted them on size 4 double points and used two skeins of Debbie Bliss Cahmerino dk in colorway #18004. I love the Debbie Bliss Cahmerino for these wristwarmers, and it has the added benefit of being S.'s favorite yarn. The only thing that I did differently for these was instead of making a rib on the palm side between the thumb and fingers like I did on mine, I continued on in stockinette stitch. I think I like the stockinette stitch better. It looks a little more polished I guess and the gloves have enough structure that it doesn't curl like I feared it might.
