Do you remember my two garter (knit all the stitches, wrong and right side) scarves I gave my brother and dad at Christmas? They were done with acrylic yarn and I've stuck with that yarn as I'm learning (not wasting money on the good stuff). Well, dear friends, don't be surprised if you get a scarf this year for Christmas. I'm going to have ton of them and I only have one neck... =).
The third scarf I attempted was the Herringbone Stitch. Looking back, I realize that I shouldn't have tried that one for my third scarf (really should have practiced purling more, but I'm stubborn). I found a great tutorial at New Stitch a Day.com (LOVE this place!) and got started.
First off, this is just the starting swatch of it. The finished product curls in (No, I didn't block it yet) and the yarn bunches at the edges. When asking a knitting friend, she said that it's the type of yarn that I used and if I used "big girl yarn" it wouldn't do that (yes, but my bank account would be silently weeping in the corner). I like it, but I didn't use a pattern and just knit until I got bored... so it isn't really long enough for any guy friends.
The edges are lying flat here, but the longer it got, the more it curled in =\
For the fourth and fifth scarves, I did Double Knitting, which is two colors being knit and purled at the same time to get the stockingette stitch on both sides one in each color (loved this one - but it took twice as long to knit). The video I used is this one - she does a good job explaining it and since purling wasn't my best yet, it made me happy to have someone explain it simply.
This is the fifth one... the other one looks exactly like this, only pink/green.
And, of course, Domino wanted to "help" me ....
Dis MY yarn... *purr*
Hoping to post more pictures of scarves soon... not sure what my next stitch will be. Suggestions welcome!
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