Diving In

I’m not going to do the standard blog introduction thing.

Last weekend we took the whole yarn store to the KW Knitters’ Fair, so you can imagine the chaos that results from taking everything out of the shop, putting together a booth, taking apart said booth, and then putting the yarn store back together again at the end of it all.  We managed it though, but my wall of Cascade 220 and Eco wool is looking a little bare at the moment.

Believe it or not this is considerably less than we had before the fair, despite the profusion you see in this photo.

After all the chaos my knitting has had to be very simple. Think 9mm needles and superbulky yarn simple. Luckily we had a shipment of Cascade Magnum come in so I cast on for a store sample.

Gull Lace Scarf

Yarn: 1 skein (2 if you like a very long scarf) Cascade Magnum (250 g, 123yds)
Needles: 9mm straights or circular, whichever you prefer

Pattern:
CO 15 stitches.
K 3 rows.
Begin Gull Lace stitch as follows:
Row 1: K1, *k1, yo, ssk, k1, k2tog, yo* rep from * to * one more time, k2.
Row 2: k2, p to last to stitches, k2.
Row 3: K1, *k2, yo, sl1, k2tog, psso, yo, k1, rep from * to * one more time, k2.
Row 4: rep row 2

Repeat these 4 rows to desired length or until you run out of yarn!
BO loosely and weave in ends.

With Cascade Magnum you may want to split the yarn end in half and weave in one half at a time in order to make the woven in ends more invisible, but it depends on how fussy you are about that sort of thing.  I will have this pattern available in the shop for everyone but I thought I’d share it here as well.  I don’t claim any rights to the stitch pattern, which you may have seen before in the February Baby Sweater (ravelry link) by Elizabeth Zimmerman, and the February Lady (ravelry link) adaptation by Flintknits

I’ve since finished it, but I still have to weave the ends in (or ask my mom to weave them in for me! what are moms for, eh?) It took almost no time to knit but was still quite satisfying. Now that I’ve had a little instant gratification I can get back to projects that are going to take more than a few hours to finish. What I have to watch out for is that I don’t immediately cast on some giant new project as a replacement for this one. We’ll see how that goes, as there are some Norah Gaughan patterns that are just calling to me right now…

Tags: cascade, FOs, Free Patterns, knitters' fair, State of the Shop