Scarf to the Frogpond

Oh yeah, well. After starting a scarf in the lovely blue-and-green Malabrigo and frogging it five (5) times, trying several different patterns, I finally settled on one. I actually was using a lovely pattern and the scarf knitting was going swimmingly until I had this fleeting but troubling thought that I might not have enough yarn for a good scarf length. (I have learned to pay attention to these inner nudges.)

So I weighed the yarn I had left on my sensitive postal scale and did some calculations and, well . . . oops. It was tragic to frog something that was turning out well. But there you go. Unless I wanted to give my friend a very short neck wrap, the deed had to be done.

After several misfires, I began the scarf in a narrower width in a diagonal pattern that I hadn’t used before. After spending hours in the airport and on planes en route to a family reunion in Minnesota, I made a lot of headway on the scarf and am very happy with how it’s going (although it’s a skosh narrower than I would like it to be, but one has to make trade-offs). And I will have enough yarn. And I will finish the gift before I see my friend in early August.

This Diagonal Rib pattern is reversible:

I brought with me on our Minnesota trip the melon-colored Malabrigo scarf I have been working on for about six months. Somehow, other projects get in the way of this one (probably because I can’t seem to memorize the pattern). And true to form, I didn’t knit on it at all. But by golly, I got some photos of it so you can see the loveliness of Barbara Walker’s Elongated Diamond pattern. It’s in one of her first two treasuries. I can’t remember which one because I had them both checked out of the library at the same time.

This is the front:

and the back:

I can’t seem to get the color accurate in the above two photos, so here’s Quality Fiber’s photo of the yarn in the color “Molly”; I bought the yarn from them, and the color below is correct. (I wouldn’t have ordered the hot pink above.)

I didn’t take Sahara with me to Minnesota. I knew I’d be busy with family, and I didn’t want to carry the bigger project with me when I had a deadline for the blue-green scarf.