You can’t have too many scarves … especially when one tends to lose them as I did with a beautiful handspun black alpaca Falling Leaves Scarf by Lucy Neatby. I’m hoping to not repeat that misadventure with any of these scarves though, once is quite enough!
The first scarf is the result of a beginner’s weaving class I took near the end of October. We thread our looms in a twill pattern, used the same weight wool yarn for both warp and weft, and were then left to our own devices as to colour and pattern. I had fun with both as you can see. Though my colour choices are perhaps a bit mundane. I’m thinking I should have had a bit of lime green or something edgy in there. Oh well, done is done and I’m not unhappy with my efforts really.
Scarf number two is the surprise Lucy tucked in a package of misplaced trip items. I really enjoyed the knitting and love the colour combination and how the scarf feels with the weight of the beads. Very intriguing design as you knit on the diagonal, but bead in the opposite direction on each side. Love it!
Scarf number three is also a Lucy Neatby pattern. The Sea Lettuce Scarf pattern in fact. (I purchased the pattern on-line at The Yarn Vault and ended up having to ask for access to the file two more times than I should have. Lesson learned was … save and print immediately after downloading the first time, then don’t order things on the Internet until after you have successfully migrated from the old computer to the new computer. Life will be much less embarrassing!) The yarn is from another recent workshop. A lichen dyeing workshop. I could have twisted the colours into skeins and kept them on a ring with their directions attached, but I thought I would prefer to knit something that would show the colours off. I think this pattern was perfect for that and I love how the colours all go together so well.
