I made it just over 2 yards long - I tend to like longer scarves (longer than I am tall) myself, and I am well aware that this may wind up going to a young man who is taller than I would be.
It took about 1 3/4 balls of "Bamboo Ewe" to make it. I've woven in the ends and I do think I will lightly block it before I send it off (I think Dec. 1 is either the deadline, or maybe the start date to send stuff in - I'll have to look that up).
I have to admit I'm a little pleased by the symbolism of the start/end dates on this - you might remember I started this back in the summer when there was that terrible shooting incident (and bombing) in Norway...and today I finished it, on the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. I started the scarf as sort of a desperate "See, people CAN do good things for strangers" lashing out against....I don't know what, randomness or evil or something bad in the universe.
(I also remember when the September 11 attacks happened, I started a scarf that day - again, as a response of "I don't know what I am going to do and I am upset and scared but maybe I can knit a warm scarf for someone" - that scarf ultimately was a Christmas gift to my dad that year.)
(It's funny how often I return to scarves - or rectangular shawls - or similar things - when I'm upset and at sixes and sevens and just need to keep my hands and my mind busy. I also started a shawl - now finished - one night when my mom called to say she was taking my dad to the hospital (thank God, it was something minor that antibiotics got rid of). And I knit a prayer blanket for my dad back in 2004 or thereabout when he was going through rounds and rounds of scary medical testing. It was during that time that I came to realize that praying often does as much to help the person saying the prayers, as it does to help the person being prayed for...though I don't know, what he ultimately turned out to have was something that was one of the least awful things he could have had, and it was found in such an early stage it was comparatively easily treated, so I wonder if all those scared little prayers I sent up every night that fall had some impact.)
And I will admit, as I put the last rows in today, I sent up some good thoughts for the person, whoever it is, who will eventually wear this - that it keeps them warm, and safe, and that receiving the scarf as a gift makes them happy. That they have a good life and strive to do good in the world.
Warm, safe, happy, trying to make the world a little better...things I would hope for anyone in college. Or anyone, for that matter.
I also began the scarf (from the same pattern but a different yarn) that will be part of my mom's Christmas present, but haven't yet gotten very far on it.
I do also plan to do another Red Scarf - I have some cranberry colored Wool-Ease I can use - but use a different pattern, maybe one of the numerous nice knit-purl reversible patterns.
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