Excited to share my scarf project. Figured it was only fair to let K receive it in the mail as a surprise before letting the cosmos in on it. K's been having a rough summer. I wanted to send her a bundle of cheer and love.
Knitting is a calming, almost mediative practice for me. Love to imagine that I am weaving in my prayers and good thoughts for the recipant as I am working. Inspired on this project to track and convey what wonderful LIFE was happening while I knitted.
- New Jobs
- Concerts with friends
- Baseball games
- Quiet R&R time
- Visiting and laughing with family & friends
- Bus rides and sharing with admiring strangers
- Backyard fires with close knit friends
- Amonst adoring nieces
- Ferry rides & a road trip
Think I will do that with my projects from now on. Not that the list above would change frequently. But you never know what surprise you'll find woven in there. I've knitted at 30 thousand feet, on 2 continents and across the Atlantic Ocean. Sorry K - nothing that fun on this one.
Very happy as it's the first project I've seen to completion in months. Yahoo!! And it turned out beautifully! Best yet, I've built momentum to wrap up a few more projects in the upcoming weeks.
Good things are a knitting!
POSTCARD a scarf for K
starting point
making progress
finis!
close up
love the vibrancy of the color and it's movement
For you knitters out there, I found the pattern on Ravelry - Lace Ribbon Scarf from Knitty.com. My version was knit with a sport weight yarn on US Size 6 needles. I reduce the width to 3 zig-zag lines from 5 by casting on 35 stitches and repeating the pattern 2x. I also took the length to 100". A nice cheery, light weight cotton scarf.
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