Sunday, February 18, 2007

fin

i just finished weaving in the ends. all but one. i don't want to block it because i love the way it curls in on itself and creates the waves that it was named for. the "ladder" stitches are still kinda kinked though. i'll hang it over a chair and see if its own weight will stretch things out.


i did have enough yarn but i was panicked at the end and so cheated a bit. i k2tog in almost every repeat about 12 rows from the end, effectively reducing the number of rows i still had to knit. no one would ever know unless they were specifically looking for it but i'm not 100% that i'm satisfied. especially now that i know exactly how much yarn i have left. i could rip back and reknit that last bit. i probably will. i didn't weave in that end because i was still waffling. (watch, i'll be just short of yarn when i do re-knit it)


i'm waffling in general. i liked the yarn better as a skein than knit up. i was hoping for a lighter green. i don't really have a coat that goes with it. but it cost so much money! i could give it to someone deserving like my mom but i dunno. i'll live with it for a bit and see. after i fix it.

2 comments:

Ms. Hedda said...

That scarf deserves a new spring coat. It's beautiful. Such a great colour for you!

You don't HAVE to block it, do you? Is it a knitting rule?

Trixie said...

blocking is good for garments that you want to fit. you block to the measurements given in the pattern. zillah blocked the heck out the sweater she knit for baby j because she wanted it to fit him for a while (so she blocked it as big as possible).

with the clapotis, blocking it will make it flatten out -- killing the wavey effect. so nope, no blocking for this scarf.

i'm glad you like it. it'll look nice with my black spring coat.