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Wednesday 09 Dec 2009
Eternal Sunshine
My crocheted Red Scarf is done and, you know what? I like it! Trust me, I would never send a scarf off to OFA unless it was something I’d wear myself.
Yarn: Cascade Ecological Wool
Hook: K (6.5mm)
Pattern: Work a 155-stitch chain foundation. Working back and forth lengthwise, sc in the back loop only until it’s wide enough.
Ravelry: Link to project page.
I soaked it in some Eucalan and then blocked it out to the finished measurements of 7″ x 70″
The stitch pattern reminds me of The Corrugator scarf.
I just need to make a tag, attach a fast-food gift card, and send it on it’s way. yay!
It’s been bitterly cold here the last few days. So cold, in fact, that my daughter actually asked if I had some mittens she could wear while driving to school.
More than two years ago, I made a pair of Mitered Mittens from yarn I dyed with tumeric. In September 2007, I blogged that they just needed the ends woven in. Guess what? December 2009 and I still hadn’t woven in the ends. They’ve been sitting on a corner of my desk FOR.TWO.YEARS!
Well, the ends are woven in now. But when I turned the mittens inside out, I discovered that tumeric is not light fast. 
Here’s a post showing what the yarn looked like after it was dyed.
And here’s a post with a photo of the in-progress mitten.
Here’s what the mittens look like now:
Aaah, the power of the sun.
