Last Tuesday night, at the Silver Spring Knitters (SSK), over half of the 16 people there were knitting scarves to give to Food & Friends. I wasn’t one of them, but felt guilty, because this is the fourth year that F&F has had this drive, and I hadn’t made one.
I came home from SSK, and dug around in my stash, and found a skein leftover from a vest I made in the Fall out of Wool in the Woods (I think), figured out a pattern (the Knit Stitch a day perpetual calendar – January 12 – waterfall lace (I think), fussed with needle sizes – and off I went.
I have just now finished it – and it’s really nice, if I do say so myself – and it’s just about 48 hours from cast-on (for the final time) to cast-off. It was knit on size 9 needles, and only 31 stitches wide – it really did fly. And I like the stitch pattern so much, I’ve dug up another yarn, and am going to cast on for another scarf – but I really should finish the body of the Elephant’s baby blanket.
I am really pleased with the way it looks on the RIGHT SIDE and on the WRONG side -- nice contrast.
Anyway, if you live in the DC area, you might want to crank out a scarf or two for F&F by February 6. I’ll do a second one for sure. And I think the pattern may make it’s way into a pair of socks for ME!
And the other fun thing – I dug around for some larger (for me needles) to knit the scarves on, and for some reason rediscovered the stash I have of OLD, OLD, knitting needles. By OLD, OLD – I mean, 1930s or so --- and marked with a K on the end, and 5 imprinted on the needles themselves – in my needle gauge they measure out to US 9 or 5 mm. One of my many knitting “pin” gauges is from Inox, and it has BWG, US and metric sizes. Under BWG it lists US 9 as being also BWG 5. I’m having fun knitting with them.
And here's the promised photo of the finished afghan!
1 comment:
Beautiful scarf! And that afghan is just incredible. I think I may have to make something like that....
And what is BWG? The British style of sizing?
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