Two scarves growing

One of the things I like about scarves is that, because there's no shaping (and in some of them, you don't even need to count rows - you can tell where you are in the pattern by looking), you can set them down for long periods of time and be reasonably secure when you come back to them that you're not going to mess things up too badly.

(Unlike the armhole shaping I totally bungled on one sweater, and unlike the errors I made in another, that required ripping back a full 7" of work)

So I'll start them, and then take a while to get very far.



This is the second incarnation (that I've knit) of the Ribbon Lace scarf. This time, I bought two 100-g skeins of fingering weight for it and I'm going to make a really long scarf.

This is currently my invigilating-knitting project. (Which, sadly, seems to be the only time any more that I have much of a block of time for knitting)

This scarf pattern also has double-yarn-overs in it (where you loop twice around the needle before making the next stitch). Double yarn overs: the knitter's double rainbow? (But without the ability to amaze and confound stoners by their mere existence.)

I also have been working on the seed-stitch Malabrigo scarf.



Good old seed stitch. It takes a while to do because you're flipping back from knit to purl for every stitch, but it looks nice, it doesn't curl, and it breaks up the pooling in variegated yarn.

(The zig-zag that the gold makes in that patterning is just serendipity. I doubt the second ball will do that. And yeah, even though they tell you to alternate balls when you're knitting with a variegated, I didn't here. Sometimes that's more of a pain than the results justify.)