inadequate morning light. At least it was cool enough this morning to
get away with wearing it and not looking -too- silly. Open-toed shoes
and a bulky knit scarf - right, not silly at all. February is
confusing in North Carolina!
The yarn for this is a brown fuzzy acrylic/wool?/nylon/mohair thing.
The nylon is thread-of-gold, which of course doesn't show up too well
in the pic. At my neck you can see the strand of orange bamboo fabric
I knitted in just for the hell of it - I got the bamboo for another
project and couldn't wait to see it in -something- :) The stitching is
simply knit-knit-knit in a garter-stitch (knit every row), but I did
do a few rows of stockinette (alternate knit/purl rows) near the
beginning just for a little change of texture (unfortunately it
doesn't show in this picture). I also put in a random rectangle of
stockinette stitching near the orange thread, but got worried that it
would warp the shape (such as it is) because it was on one side only.
It didn't, but it was only a ~4x8 bit.
Can't decide whether to play next with the bamboo stuff (probably an
indoor-wear scarf), try my hand at a hat, doink around with some 100%
cotton I got (in red-white-blue, if you can believe it - hey, it was
cheap!), or actually break down and do one of those 'fun-fur
knit-in-an-evening on giant needles' scarves. Maybe all at once :)
