Okay-- Can you see the difference?
My photographing skills really don't do this justice, but I'm just so excited about this!
Most of the pictures--the pictures of the more colorful scarf--are of a scarf I made using two different Cotton Cakes. The cakes are cunningly designed--the yarn is made up of four strands (two plies per strand) of brightly colored yarn. The color shifts are made ONE STRAND AT A TIME. So, four strands of paddy green which changes to one strand of light green to three strands of paddy green, to two strands of light green and two strands of paddy green--and you can see the flow of the scarf in the pictures.
I made this scarf (which is insanely long) according to a pattern I found on Ravelry, and I loved it--but it wasn't that warm. Colorful and exciting, yes, but warm? Nope--cotton, right?
Anyway, it's pretty, and it caught the attention of my friend who asked (nicely and respectfully because us yarners are a prickly bunch) if I could make one for his friend.
I said yes automatically, ignoring a couple of facts about myself.
A. Sport weight cotton yarn takes forever to work up.
B. That pattern is SO long.
C. My hands hurt--my arthritis isn't quitting because Christmas, and cotton makes them hurt worse.
D. I get bored super easy, and doing the same pattern which is long and painful to begin with wasn't going to make me work any faster.
E. My friend--and his friend--live in the Bay Area which is not a place for cotton scarves in the winter.
So aftrer the beginnings of that project sat in my bag for a good three months, I finished my Christmas knitting and had an epiphany.
I could, with a little imagination, achieve a similar effect using two strands of soft, warm, squishy wool/acrylic blend that was achieved by the cotton.
I simplified the color pattern--by a lot--although it would be fun to do a full out rainbow like this, in smaller color sections, don't get me wrong. And I changed up the stitch pattern, to something that would make the most of two strands of soft, squishy warm wool--something that would warm little pockets of air against the skin and keep the wearer really wrapped in joy, so to speak.
And then I added pompoms.
The result is a little less subtle--and, like I said, fewer colors and shades, but... but I'm pretty excited about it.
And, you know. I thought I'd share.
My photographing skills really don't do this justice, but I'm just so excited about this!
Most of the pictures--the pictures of the more colorful scarf--are of a scarf I made using two different Cotton Cakes. The cakes are cunningly designed--the yarn is made up of four strands (two plies per strand) of brightly colored yarn. The color shifts are made ONE STRAND AT A TIME. So, four strands of paddy green which changes to one strand of light green to three strands of paddy green, to two strands of light green and two strands of paddy green--and you can see the flow of the scarf in the pictures.
I made this scarf (which is insanely long) according to a pattern I found on Ravelry, and I loved it--but it wasn't that warm. Colorful and exciting, yes, but warm? Nope--cotton, right?
Anyway, it's pretty, and it caught the attention of my friend who asked (nicely and respectfully because us yarners are a prickly bunch) if I could make one for his friend.
I said yes automatically, ignoring a couple of facts about myself.
A. Sport weight cotton yarn takes forever to work up.
B. That pattern is SO long.
C. My hands hurt--my arthritis isn't quitting because Christmas, and cotton makes them hurt worse.
D. I get bored super easy, and doing the same pattern which is long and painful to begin with wasn't going to make me work any faster.
E. My friend--and his friend--live in the Bay Area which is not a place for cotton scarves in the winter.
So aftrer the beginnings of that project sat in my bag for a good three months, I finished my Christmas knitting and had an epiphany.
I could, with a little imagination, achieve a similar effect using two strands of soft, warm, squishy wool/acrylic blend that was achieved by the cotton.
I simplified the color pattern--by a lot--although it would be fun to do a full out rainbow like this, in smaller color sections, don't get me wrong. And I changed up the stitch pattern, to something that would make the most of two strands of soft, squishy warm wool--something that would warm little pockets of air against the skin and keep the wearer really wrapped in joy, so to speak.
And then I added pompoms.
The result is a little less subtle--and, like I said, fewer colors and shades, but... but I'm pretty excited about it.
And, you know. I thought I'd share.
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