I think I may have formed an attachment to this pattern. Even though I’ve knit it three times (and despite frogging one of them) I still want to knit it again.

The long of it:

The short of it:

Perhaps the appeal is that it’s great mindless tv knitting. Yet I love wearing these scarves, too. As a friend pointed out, with a loop scarf you never have those annoying ends falling into stuff you’re doing. If it’s cold you loop it twice, and when you enter a warm place you take it back to one loop.

This one was knit from possum merino yarn I bought in New Zealand back in ’08. I’ve been eyeing some yarn friends gave me on my birthday – a collection of plain grey commercial yarn and grey and white handspun that I could knit in stripes…