Ruthless Knitting Archive

Pattern: My own, if you can call a 36-stitch brioche repeat a “pattern”
Size: 8 inches wide and 68 inches long
Yarn: Various Mountain Colors Bearfoot millends in unidentified colorways; black alpaca of unknown manufacture. Both yarns held double.
Yardage: No idea
Yarn Source: A shop in Montana; a sweater from my mother that I frogged
Needles: US size 7
Gauge: 18 stitches over 4 inches
Notes: I don’t have a whole lot to say about this one except that I’m glad it’s finished. Scarves are not my favorite thing to knit, though they are awfully nice to have.

I tried to arrange the colors from reds to blues in an order that made sense visually, which was difficult toward the middle because it wasn’t always possible to tell which color was going to predominate in a particular colorway until I began knitting it up. And I wasn’t about to rip anything out, since the only way I know how to fix a problem in brioche is to tink back to it.

I like the strong ribbed look that brioche stitch gives to the scarf, as well as the cushy texture it creates. The scarf is very long and very warm, and it will no doubt be just perfect with my puffy black coat when the depths of winter return. For now, I shall hang it in the closet to await its destiny.

In other news, I am still in finishing-things-up mode, with about 15 inches to go on Clementine and another three rounds to do on the Tedium Bathmat. I hope to have another finished object (or two?) by Monday.