YOP update 21st August

A finished project! I shared a quick glimpse of it unblocked on Friday, but have since found time to get it on the ironing board and give it a steam.

Cream on blue, not exactly a great colour choice for a photograph!

Black background you say? Much better!

Pattern: Victorian Scarf by Kerin Dimeler-Laurence (direct link here)

Yarn: Sirdar Simply Recycled DK (51% recycled cotton, 49% acrylic)

Needles: 6mm

Finished dimensions: unblocked 44" x 4", blocked X" x X"

This is, all things considered, a very simple lace pattern, but for me at least it was a step up from the Easy Lace Stole (still in progress), as it involved some sexy new stitches, such as ssk and k3tog. As a stepping stone to more complicated projects, it was a great choice.

If I were to make it again, I would probably do some things differently. Like starting with a provisional cast on and knitting from the middle out, so the chevrons point in the same direction on each end and the stockinette border at the ends would match better.



I am pleased with my yarn choice. The Sirdar Simply Recycled is incredibly smooth and the scarf feels lovely against my skin. I used about three quarters of the 50g ball, so I could have got a few more repeats out of it. I'd definitely use it again, I think it might be very nice for a vest or similar. It comes in some very pretty muted shades of blue, pink and green.

The pattern as downloaded contained only the chart, which although perfectly understandable, I found difficult to keep track of. So I wrote out the instructions in Word and worked from that. I know at some point I am going to have to get better at working from charts, as I am bound to eventually choose a complicated lace pattern which is chart only. But for now, this halfway house approach seems to be working just fine.

As soon as that scarf came off the needles, I cast on immediately with the next knit project on the list (seriously, that Easy Lace Stole is going to be my last knit FO from the list at this rate!). The Thinking of You scarf is another DK weight lace scarf project, but far more complex than the Victorian Scarf. It involves such terrifying concepts as knitting and purling in the same row and working a pattern on both RS and WS. The pattern changes too, the first two thirds in a relatively simple four row repeat eyelet rib pattern, before changing to the interlocking heart motif.

So far, I've managed about 16 rows.

Quite clearly, this photo was taken after about 4 rows. It's longer than this.

I'm not sure how much progress I'm going to get done this week, as I'm off to a LRP event on Wednesday and not back till Tuesday!