I finally dug out that second skein of Schaefer Nichole in the Janis Joplin colorway. It's been wound for a while with the intention of becoming skinny scarf. And I'm about 15" along. And I still think it looks like ground up muppets.
I manage to find a stitch count that isn't pooling, though I think part of that is the dye job helping. The sequence is Orange, Teal, Purple, Pink, Purple, Teal. With the orange doubly long and the pink only appearing as a short blip, it breaks it up nicely. The hand on the base is really nice and I am enjoying the knitting. It does make me a little sad that this yarn is discontinued. Also I may have contacted one of the people selling her skein of the yarn in a different colorway on Ravelry to see about buying it. Ya know, as you do...
The pattern is the Yarn Harlot's One Row Handspun Scarf and it's going pretty well. I have to catch myself from switching back into ribbing now and again but considering my usual zoning out while knitting, it hasn't been horrible.
This was a requested project, by one of those few people in my life who are allowed to do such things. That'll go in the gift bin for the upcoming holidays.
My immediate family all have birthdays in the last two months of the year and then we have Christmas and about a half a dozen babies due soon, so if I'm going to get any holiday knitting done I need to start thinking about it now. Especially with all of the work deadlines currently hovering and getting in the way of my knitting time.
Are you planning any holiday knitting this year?
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