One Christmas present down...

I'm making Christmas scarves for my Grandfathers from yarn I got in Hong Kong. (I took pictures of the yarn... I think they got deleted.) The yarn is really nice non-scratchy wool and was only $3 Canadian per 50g ball. But they only had the one bag, and the colours were 4 ball of the brown-ish, two of the red, one dark blue, and one light blue. So stripes it is.

Here's the first one.



I was trying to go for a repeating pattern (so I wouldn't run out of one colour) but one that looked random. I think I did pretty good. You can't see it very well the way I layed it out, but it's just a five-stripe repeat with the red and blue reversed the next time around. Like this.

VVVVVVV
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Oh, and the cable pattern is reversible. I've never seen that before. You really do learn something new all the time, don't you?



The only thing I regret about it was all those stripes! I mean, really, what was I thinking? I had 74 ends to sew in. SEVENTY-FOUR!! For one scarf! Rediculous. It took me two evenings to get them all done. I was ready to burn the thing by the time I was finished. The next scarf is the same pattern, but the stripes are twice as thick. I haven't decided which Grandpa gets which scarf yet.