Never Ending Yarn... continued

This week I was back at work after the Easter break, which means limited knitting opportunities.  Certainly not impossible but harder to obtain. I have had several interminable zoom calls which a) should have been emails, b) I was really not needed at and c) were really, really, long. These mostly account for the scarf which is my only contribution to knitting this week.



I love moss stitch bordered scarves. Stocking stitch alone curls so much when you knit it, that you have no feeling for how the scarf will look when done. I know some people like this mystery but I don’t. The moss stitch around the scarf keeps it flat as it’s worked and means that even after washing it won’t re-curl.



This self-striping yarn does lend itself really well to stocking stitch.
It has good stitch definition and the colours come out beautifully. Fortunately I still have more yarn left... like, still several balls of it left... I raised this with family members and they have harshly criticised my belief that my stash has become sentient or that it has learnt to clone itself and insist that I must have miscounted the balls when I bought the yarn. They followed this up with the observation that I could have a further 100 balls of this yarn in my stash and not know. This is blatantly untrue. The cupboard my stash is in couldn’t fit another 100 balls. I need to start knitting quicker, or find somewhere else I can expand my yarn storage. Any suggestions welcome…



Felicity



  




 



Scarf Pattern


This is worked with doubled yarn. 

Cast on 35 stitches – I like to use the cable cast on.



Row 1: K1, P1 across all stitches



Repeat this row 5 times



Row 6:  K1, P1, K1, P1, K27, P1, K1, P1, K1



Row 12: K1, P1, K1, P1, K1, P25, K1, P1, K1, P1, K1



Repeat these two rows until the required length of the scarf.



Last 5 rows; K1, P1 across all stitches



Cast off.



Weave in all ends and block



 


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