Scarves!

My quest to make a scarf began a few years ago when I tried to take up knitting- unsuccessfully. This past Christmas I again tried to learn how to knit, this time my mother taught me- successfully! Unfortunately, after working on it for a little, I decided that knitting was not for me. I still wanted to make some scarves, so I found the first one on http://www.marthastewart.com/good-thing/no-knit-scarf.

Still, I had some problems making this- it wasn’t long enough or thick enough. I bought the thickest yarn I could find, so this one is still a working progress. I am still thinking what I can do to make it better…

After explaining my woes to Julie last night, she directed me to http://katiedid.squarespace.com/. So, with the leftover yarn, I made a different one. This one wasn’t as easy or fast as the knot scarf, but I like it a lot better. The hard part was the first few stitches, but then it became easier. The directions are simple and it came out really cute. If I had to do it again, I would probably use more yarn, but I ran out.

Now my scarf adventure isn’t over yet. I bought a “Knifty Knitter” at Jo-Ann’s. This is like those little hand held knitters most of us had a children with the four nails that you would wind the yarn around, and it would come out the bottom like a long snake. The one I bought is rectangular and plastic. I began a scarf on there two days ago, but had to stop after running out of yarn. Now that I have some more, I am going to finish that one…