This is a stealth project, being worked on when Mr C is out. It's his Christmas present. I had two skeins of Artesano Aran in grey left over from knitting Jerrard's scarf and as it's such a lovely, thick, warm yarn I thought I'd use it to knit Chris a scarf. He loves bright colours, but was happy to have another seaman type scarf (two tails with ribbing around the neck) in grey. I thought I might liven it up a bit with some colour, and decided to knit a striped scarf with neck ribbing.
Yesterday I found a book which I bought last year called Knitting New Scarves. Here's a blog! Lots of unusally constructed scarves, and I've been wanting to cast on several of them. So instead of knitting Chris a normal striped scarf I thought I'd do the Striped Illusion. It's plain garter stitch, with stripes not quite lined up and movement between the two ends of the rows every stripe, so it looks as if there are two layers, not one. A photo best describes this (taken in a darkened room in a hurry, before Chris arrived back on Sunday!)
The colours are red and grey. All he knows is that it's grey plus 'a colour' and also that I won't be knitting regular stripes.
It's not difficult at all, and, as I'm doing two short tails, I won't be bored to death with the pattern.
Love it! The problem now is that I see several other scarf projects I have to do!
Does he never take a peek at your blog?
The scarf looks amazing. Must be a good way to use up some stash ;)
Posted by: Karin | November 09, 2009 at 02:10 PM