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Finally finished! This scarf for John took me a lot longer to complete than I had originally expected, the plan was to have it finished before he left for Adelaide on July 1st, I thought it would be perfect for the winter down there. I’ve finished it just in time for the hottest end of winter temperatures ever… I love this weather! Summer in Winter, what could be better?! But not exactly scarf wearing weather :)
I was not happy with the appearance of the cast on edge, the pattern claims it matches the cast off edge but it really doesn’t. I couldn’t be happy with the long edges looking so completely different so I picked up all 200+ (270 I think, this scarf is knit lengthways) stitches along the cast on edge and repeated the finishing four rows of the pattern and cast off in the same way. Perfect.
The Malabrigo Sock (Tiziano Red) is such a pleasure to work with, the combination of long rows and simple woven herringbone stitch pattern made this a very meditative project. I felt great satisfaction after blocking the scarf, but having said that I don’t believe I would ever make this scarf again. Once is enough :)
