Scarf Mania

I finished my Silk Garden seed stitch scarf laaate last night while watching a few movies. Here's a photo of it on the couch so you can see all the colors (they are pretty accurate on my monitor).



YAY!! I love it!


I had it on around the apartment today; it is going to be nice and warm. I kind of wanted to go outside and take a model-y photo of me wearing it... but not enough to actually go outside in the cold! For the record, the movies I watched while finishing were The Mummy Returns, The Long, Long Trailer (old Lucy and Desi flick), and Galaxy Quest.

I started a new project today - totally unscheduled.






It's the beginning of a multi-directional scarf out of Plymouth Encore. I certainly wasn't planning on making two scarves in a row, but after reading on many blogs how fast/fun/easy they are and then coming across this subtly-rainbowed yarn leftover from a hat I couldn't resist. Actually, you can't really see the color changes in that photo, but trust me they are there and look cool =)

Tip Toes

I am putting off the denim diamonds socks in order to try out some toes and heels from my new Cool Socks Warm Feel book. I'm trying to do them toe-up, both at once, on two circs. First I made two separate short row toes that looked like this:





Then I picked up stitches from the provisional cast on, put them both on two circs and started(well, attempted at least) to knit around.



the yarn is Regia multieffect


I think I am getting the hang of the two at once thing. It feels sort of slow, but I think it will get easier. I also really like the short row toe, and will definitely use it again.

I had some issues with my provisional cast on however. I have done it a few times successfully in the past so I am not sure what went wrong this time. When I tried to "unzip" the crochet chain, it would not come out. So I had to pick it back the whole way. BUT when I did there were not loops waiting to be grabbed but a solid finished edge! It actually looked like a very nice edge but that was totally not what I was going for. I'd almost like to know how I did it, to I could get the same smooth cast on again!