January 3, 2009

• The Road Scarf

  I just finished knitting a scarf for my son, which is a late Christmas gift. I took the yarn and directions with me on my vacation to New York and Minnesota in October. I started it in my hotel room in Poughkeepsie and worked on it during my stay. Then I continued to knit on the scarf while in Minnesota, while traveling in my friend’s car from Minneapolis to Duluth and back one day, and in his kitchen over daily morning coffee. I finally finished it, just in time to give to my son before he heads up to a new job in Bakersfield next week.

  It’s aptly called The Road Scarf, and it is a free pattern from the Lion Brand Yarn website. I used some Lion Brand Wool Ease yarn from my stash. It’s a now discontinued color: Tartan Twist 185, which is a strand of green and a strand of purple spun together….but it reads as blue. It’s so vintage, it has the old light yellow Wool Ease label. At 20% wool and 80% acrylic, it will wear like iron and won’t shrink in the washer or dryer. It got boring after awhile, but I soldiered on to complete it. Now I can tackle finishing his afghan, and then all of those WIPs (works in progress) and UFOs (unfinished objects) lurking about this place. 2009 is going to be the year of finishing up my WIPs!

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