Tag: <span>scarf</span>

Tag: scarf

Scarves, Spinning

Sunshine Surf Scarf

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This is another one of those great spun-to-finished projects that I love doing.  

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Roving

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The yarn is fingering weight and a three ply. I just divided the roving into three parts that weighed about the same. This is my first three ply since I got the SpinOlution lazy kate and put her to the test. It worked out great and the resulting yarn was so squishy and soft.

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The Scarf! It’s longer than I am tall (5’4″) and is soft and puffy and squishy. Orange probably isn’t my favorite of all the colors, but I LOVE how this knitted up and how incredibly soft it is. I decided not to block the scarf since I loved the bubbly and rippled texture that the dropped yarn overs give the fabric. It’s been worn a bunch of times and has gathered a number of compliments.

Pattern: Morning Surf Scarf
Designer: Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer
Needles: US 5 (3.75 mm)
Yarn: Handpun from Crown Mountain Farms superwash merino roving, colorway “Sunshine of your Love”
–Ravelry Project Link–  

Finished Objects, Scarves

Beauty in Repetition

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Arguably the easiest knit I’ve ever done and SO beautiful.   This took me a whole two days to knit since I could not put it down.   I didn’t find one knot in any of the four skeins although there was plenty of vegetable matter throughout.   I suppose that’s the big problem I have with Noro – it costs enough that you’d think it would be a quality yarn with no VM.   I’m tempted to go and spin up something similar and make another scarf like this since it’s SO gorgeous and so easy to do.   The ‘base’ skeins I used were mostly black with some dark blue and green mixed in.. I suppose I could’ve picked better companion skeins or maybe started at different points so that I didn’t get the one really dark patch and the one really light patch, but the beauty of the project is that you never know what’s going to happen with Noro colors.   Also, no two scarves can ever EVER be the same since no two skeins of Noro that I’ve ever seen start and end at the same color.   That makes these Noro striped scarves like snowflakes, right?   😉

Pattern: Noro Striped Scarf
Designer: Jared Flood
Needles: US 7 (4.5mm)
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden  in 264, 246, and 252
–Ravelry Project Link–