I've killed off one my two skeins of 'Sand' colored Blue Sky organic cotton as of today. The scarf currently measures little over 2 feet (25") long. I might grab a third skein to extend the length a bit. Meanwhile, I've decided to split the pattern by 1/3 so that I can squeeze out as many scarfs as I can from the other balls of Blue Sky that I have ( Read more... )

I started two projects. One I started two days ago, with my Honey Pot yarn. A very simple 1x1 rib scarf. I consider him "traveling knitting".

Yesterday I started knitting the Irish Hiking Scarf with my cream colored Blue Sky Organic Cotton. I'm about to complete a fourth repeat of the pattern. Lets see how long it takes me to finish this guy. : )

I like the term "stash enrichment". It makes me feel like what I did yesterday was not just painful monetarily, but was actually *necessary*. That my stash would be worse off without it. Some how sadder, and incomplete. I also really like the excuse of X Mas. The excuse of X Mas plays out thusly: "Gee, my mother-in-law really helped us a lot with ( Read more... )