Ok, so I'm still playing catch up here so please forgive me! I'm going to combine this scarf project into 1 post in an attempt to catch up to my current project (project #5!) I made this scarf for my boyfriend's mother for Christmas, so I was kind of pressed for time. It took about 5 or 6 days to knit since I just did a simple garter stitch, but spiced it up by using 3 different yarns and size 13 needles. The yarns I chose were Lion Brand Homespun in Candy Apple, Yarn Bee Icelandic Jewels in Ruby, and Gala 100% Acrylic Yarn (that doesn't have a name for the color according to this Big Lots label that leaves much to the imagination...such at the appropriate needle size and yardage etc, but I'd say it's a crimson/purple twist.) The Icelandic Jewels yarn is one of the first skeins of yarn I ever got, and I only own one skein of it and it has since been discontinued. I was never very fond of it since my mom picked it out for me, but I really liked it in this scarf. The little flecks ("jewels") of color make it more interesting, and same with the hint of purple in the twist acrylic yarn.
Like I said, for the pattern I just knit simple garter switch and since I ran out of the twist yarn before the other two, I had to end it a few inches earlier than I had planned. I made tassels to compensate for that and with the tassels it seems to be a fairly decent scarf length (forgot to measure it, but I'd say it ended up being between 4.5 and 5 feet long. It feels really nice, and has a lot more color depth then if I had only used one yarn (not to mention it was like 3 times faster to knit!) Sorry I forgot to take a progress pic till the last second on this one (and also combined all three posts into one condensed one) but for the sake of catching up to the project I'm on right now, I figured it had to be done.
Ok, so I'm still playing catch up here so please forgive me! I'm going to combine this scarf project into 1 post in an attempt to catch up to my current project (project #5!) I made this scarf for my boyfriend's mother for Christmas, so I was kind of pressed for time. It took about 5 or 6 days to knit since I just did a simple garter stitch, but spiced it up by using 3 different yarns and size 13 needles. The yarns I chose were Lion Brand Homespun in Candy Apple, Yarn Bee Icelandic Jewels in Ruby, and Gala 100% Acrylic Yarn (that doesn't have a name for the color according to this Big Lots label that leaves much to the imagination...such at the appropriate needle size and yardage etc, but I'd say it's a crimson/purple twist.) The Icelandic Jewels yarn is one of the first skeins of yarn I ever got, and I only own one skein of it and it has since been discontinued. I was never very fond of it since my mom picked it out for me, but I really liked it in this scarf. The little flecks ("jewels") of color make it more interesting, and same with the hint of purple in the twist acrylic yarn.
Like I said, for the pattern I just knit simple garter switch and since I ran out of the twist yarn before the other two, I had to end it a few inches earlier than I had planned. I made tassels to compensate for that and with the tassels it seems to be a fairly decent scarf length (forgot to measure it, but I'd say it ended up being between 4.5 and 5 feet long. It feels really nice, and has a lot more color depth then if I had only used one yarn (not to mention it was like 3 times faster to knit!) Sorry I forgot to take a progress pic till the last second on this one (and also combined all three posts into one condensed one) but for the sake of catching up to the project I'm on right now, I figured it had to be done.
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