The Traveling Scarf: Postal Dramatics

Today I heard from the person who mails the scarves to me and he gave me the tracking number for the lost scarf. Unfortunately, it shows it was delivered to my house on May 21. That was more than a week ago and it is definitely not here. I checked with my husband to be sure, just in case he missed it or put it somewhere and forgot to tell me. He knows the scarves are coming and what the packages generally look like, so it's highly unlikely he overlooked it. Of course, he didn't overlook it. It's not here.

Rather than go into the post office with my 3 year-old in tow, I decided to call instead. I'm glad I did. I called this afternoon and was told to call in the morning when the carriers are still there. They will ask the carrier if they know where they left it. This will be interesting since I am pretty sure we have a different carrier each day. Our mail is never consistent. It has been coming early in the morning lately, but there are days it doesn't arrive until after 4:30 p.m!

In the meantime, I have gotten started on the scarf I did receive. My mom let me have a skein of yarn she won't use. I think it's very pretty. It's Sardir Snuggly Magic. It's DK weight and has green in it. She took knitting classes at the same time I started to learn, but she is more into quilting so she hasn't done much knitting over the years.  She had started what looked like a baby hat with this yarn and I thought the stitch pattern she was following was pretty cool, so I'm trying it. It is pretty simple:


 K1, yo, slip as if to purl, yarn back, repeat.

It creates a different sort of ribbing, but I'm not sure how it's going to work on a straight needle project. She was knitting in the round, so it may have been better suited for that. In any case, I'm going to give it a try and see how it looks and then see if I like it enough to keep it. I posted a picture of each side of the work. It's an interesting pattern.

The Traveling Scarf: MIA

I've been expecting a scarf in the mail. Today, a scarf arrived, however, it is not the scarf I've been waiting for. The ETA of the scarf I'm waiting for was May 21. It is May 28, and the next scarf has arrived. I will work on this scarf while I wait to hear on the status of the other one. This scarf has few rules. She just wants it to be green with DK weight yarn. My son wanted to see what it felt like.

While I wait to see what happened to the other scarf, I can see what yarn I have the meets the criteria. I really hope the other scarf gets here.

The Traveling Scarf: Scarf with a Twist

The latest traveling scarf is a little bit different. Instead of knitting width-wise, this one is started lengthwise. It's a unique approach and a good idea to keep the scarf at a desired length. While most of the scarves are knitted across the width and will be quite long (probably averaging around 5 feet!), this one will be a set length. I like the purple stripe. The specs for this scarf are DK weight yarn in purples or greys. I have some greyish yarn in DK weight I've been using for a camisole top. It's called Cestari and I found it at a little yarn shop called VonStrohm Woolen Mill and Fiber Arts Studio near Circleville, OH. My husband actually discovered it on one of his trips south to visit his family, so the next time I was along and the shop was open, we stopped in to check it out. It's a pretty cool little shop with some different brands. My cami is on hold until I find a

contrast color. I want to get more of the Cestari yarn in a different color. I haven't been back to that shop, but I think I will call them and see if I can order over the phone and have it shipped. But, I digress! The yarn I chose for this scarf is Cestari Island Collection in Sea Spray. It's a blue grey.

While I think this lengthwise approach works well in keeping scarf length under control, I think it's a lot of stitches per row. There are 501 stitches cast on! I was going to do a few rows of seed stitch like the others and then transition to moss stitch, but I was worried I'd use up my skein with so many rows! So, I did about 6 rows of seed stitch. It became rather tedious knitting 500+ stitches per row. So, once my stripe was about an inch wide, I decided to call it quits and pass this one along.