Scarf Mania

Here’s a pic I forgot to include in the last post. It’s of the scarves I delivered to the relief centre:

And here’s another scarf in progress. Yes, that’s knitting, not weaving.

The weaving of scarves seems to have grown into a more general scarf-making itch. I certainly don’t need more scarves. But I rather like this short, buttoned scarf idea. Cowls don’t appeal, because they don’t fit snugly. (Melbourne can be a tad windy and I hate having a cold neck.) But neckwarmers do. Trouble is, something that fits so snugly would have to be made of non-wool yarn.

Which got me thinking about how my sensitivity to wool seems to be stronger these days. Though wearing skivvies provides a barrior, scarves still make my chin itch. And hats make my ears burn. I decided that I may as well make charity scarves out of any small batches of yarn I have that contain wool.

Then I remembered the alpaca-silk yarn in my stash, that I meant to knit vests out of but never got around to because I suspect they’ll sag and go out of shape due to the lack of memory in the yarn. There are two balls each in teal blue, brown, red, dark purple, apple green, and mid purple – two batches that I’d meant to knit in combination, but not enough of each colour to…

And then I had that ‘duh’ moment. There was enough of each colour to make neckwarmers.

I also remembered that I’d bought the book Knitting New Scarves but had never made anything out of it. I brought it out, grabbed some Eli Riva Casual and got knitting. I figured if I got a short scarf then I’ll sew on a button and it will be a neckwarmer.

For the rest of the yarn I went pattern searching in Ravelry. I’m thinking the red will become the Celtic Cable Neckwarmer, the purple become the Cashmere Neckwarmer, and the apple green become one of those bow neckwarmers of which there seems to be many different versions.

Despite all this scarf obsession, I got a lot of sock knitting done this weekend and somehow ended up with one sock done in two days.

I have no idea how it can be that one plain pair of socks can take me over a month to knit, and then I can whip the first of the next pair out in two days.

2 thoughts on “Scarf Mania

  1. Beautiful woven scarves!

    DPN’s intimidate me. Circular’s I’m comfortable and straight knitting needles are okay. I’ve only done an I-cord with two DPN’s.

  2. What a nice bunch o scarves and how gratifying that they are wanted!
    I can’t wear wool or alpaca against my skin (or alpaca at all!). Hope you have better luck than me 🙂

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