Friday 5 November 2010

FO Friday- Tapestry scarf

My FO for this week is a drop stitch scarf/shawl that is the start of my Christmas knitting. It is another project that I finished a while back then took weeks to sew in the ends, but it is done now and I have someone in mind to gift it to.
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The pattern is Sunday Market Shawl by Vanessa Carter, I used two balls of Rowan Tapestry that I received in a swap, it has come out beautifully squishy. It is a really simple pattern to make and dropping the stitches is somewhere between fun and nerve wracking. This yarn is fairly fuzzy so doing the dropping took a while to work the bits of caught fuzz out of the stitches. Fortunately I had seen a warning on a finished Ravelry project (same yarn and pattern) to be careful not to split the yarn during knitting, so that was a potential disaster avoided.
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The colour changes are lovely in this yarn, long and subtly fading into each other. The drop stitches stop what starts out as a plain knit scarf rolling up at the edges, and add interest.
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Two balls made a scarf long enough to be folded and worn scarf style, it is really thick and squishy like this.
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It is also long and wide enough to use as a shawl, the drop stitches give it loads of stretch.
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I have gone back to neglecting my sock yarn blanket in favour of making Christmas presents, I am trying to get all the must make ones done by the end of November, leaving December free for the maybe makes if there is time. Once that is all over I have a couple of lovely projects in mind, and will be doing some serious catch up on the blanket!


7 comments:

  1. I love the scarf and I especially love it in shawl style. I hear ya! I should be spinning yarn to get my stock ready for sales but....I've been knitting on about six holiday projects.

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  2. great job, it is truly lovely.

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  3. What a great gift! I love that it can be a shawl or scarf, and I like gradual color transition. I'm off to add that to my potential gift knitting list.

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  4. That turned out great! I love the colorway of the yarn!

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  5. i was just looking for a scarf to make! i'm putting this on the to-do list!

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