I made this scarf a few years ago, not really sure now how many. Originally I had done a class at Ivy and Maude, and was so inspired I went on to make dozens of these. Well, maybe a few more than a dozen, anyhow! I gave nearly all of them away as gifts.
The stitch is a very clever stitch where you wrap the wool around your thumb as you are knitting and then cast the wool over to “lock” the loop in, creating permanent loops. A friend once told me she had seen the stitch in a very old knitting book, so it’s been around… I thought for about a split second of trying to describe/draw how to do the stitch on this blog but abandoned that thought; its just too complex for my limited descriptive/illustrative skills…!
The beauty in these scarves is always in the wool you choose. All the ones I made were out of Colinette Fandango; just bought one ball of this divine all-cotton yarn and knitted up the whole ball in this fashion; bingo, instant beautiful scarf. The colour ranges available of this stuff are what “make” the scarf, imo.
This one has a mix of caramel, cream, fawn and grey and has long been a favourite (it’s got so thin!!) I have also made ones for myself in red/pink and one in pastel blue/green/pink. The other ones I made for friends were all of other colours, I never doubled up on shades. Didn’t have to! every time I went into the shop there seemed to be so many new fabulous shades to choose from, my enthusiasm would be re-ignited all over again!
Jeans; Burda 7863, black denim
News; I decided to join up to Wardrobe Refashion again, for another 4 months. I may not do heaps of refashioning this time but I’ll be sewing my own (as usual), and staying away from shopping for readymade clothes…
Also I signed up for this:
Should be fun!
love the scarf! You sound like you will be a busy girl, but I look forward to seeing all of you beautiful creations!
ooooh, good. I love your refashions … 🙂 I have to stay out of the yarn shops, always something yummy…! I like your scarf, it has great texture.
Love your scarf.
Trudy
http://www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com
I'm lusting after your scarf!
And congrats on joining up for Self-Stitched September! I'm going to be out of the country for half the month, or I'd join up, too. I'll be wearing most of my own self-stitched stuff that month, tho.
Now, if we had All-by-Me August, I'd be able to do it! (I'd have everything to wear and no sewing to do, truthfully!)