my neck continues to be warm...

Now that I'm posting pictures of it, and having probably not mentionned it all before, it seems like this thing took no time to knit. *But* in actual fact, it's been one of my more annoying endeavours of late.



Oh sure, I'm all smiles NOW.

SO. I had this purty yarn called apple pie in a nice "aubergine". A little bit of silk, a little bit of mohair, merino etc. I loved it. I loved the colour of it. But I didn't want to have to buy more to go with it. And I also didn't want to make socks out of it like the majority of this yarn is no doubt used for.

And y'all know I love scarves and kerchiefs. So I cast my brain back to mah friend's simple beauty. Maybe I should try something like that?

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It's not really showin' so much in that photo, since it's all folded up, but her pretty pink triangle shape never happened for me. Mine came out more like a big 'ol u-shape. I wish I had taken a photo wearing it. It was essentially, a bib for a grown-up. And while not a day goes by where I don't get food all over me somehow, and could in fact probably really use an adult bib, I still didn't want to go there. So I'm not sure what happened ... I think I was missing a K2tog somewhere in there. I also tried another version of my own creation with additional eyelets that yielded similar results. Half a skein later and that too was frogged. Was I feeling frustrted at this point? Yes. Yes I was.

So off to raverly I went (you know, for the one billionth time). LOTS of complex lace shawls on there, but I didn't want a shawl so much as a big kerchief. Then on ravelry I found THIS pattern. The fact that no one else appears to have knit this thing should have been my first clue. But it looked promising so off I went. Now, saying that something is terribly off with this pattern would pretty much be the understatement of the decade. I ripped it and started again THREE times, before finally launching it across the room in a fit of despair.

Breathe. Back to ravelry. And my final "winning" pattern choice. Which you can find HERE.

I wish I could tell you that everything went swimmingly from that point on, but sadly, there was a mistake in that pattern too. It's like the knitting gods simply did not want me to make a kerchief in that particular yarn in any way shape or form. I wound up tearing that one back about three times as well. In the end it was an easy enough fix, the pattern was just missing a YO on one line. You can check my project deets on Ravelry if you need to know what that was.

In the end I showed that bitch who's boss:

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and that was all the yarn I had left.

I won't kid myself though. As with most eyelet-ty things I do, there are a whole host of boo-boos! But this thing is airy enough that a hole or two out of position and I was all: pffffft, what-ever. Those photos are all pre-blocking btw and it's actually much much larger now...

Archie helped me with the blocking process:



And by "helped" me I mean, was as annoying as any creature on this earth could have POSSIBLY been. Trying to eat pins, make a fort under the cardboard, burrow into the plastic and under the scarf. aaaaaahhhhhhhh.

Mom, what do you mean? I eez innocent...

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"I can has cheezburger now?"

Sorry I couldn't resist a little lolcat action there.



Anyhoozle, it's done and I like it. Though I washed it in a sink that I had previously cleaned with baking soda, and now it too reeks of baking soda, so I think I likely won't be wearing it again until I can clean it properly. Or maybe it's a re-gifter.

Actually in re-reading this entry about my kerchief drama, I suddenly feel mad at this scarf. I think I will have to ignore it until it buys me flowers and candy makes it up to me.