Half-Width Chevron Scarf

I finally picked a pattern for my Qiviut yarn. I have 2 balls that are each 144 yards and 28 grams (~3/4 ounce). After going through Artic Lace, I realized I didn't have enough for any of the lace scarfs but noticed that some of the scarfs had two sets of motifs. At first, I thought I would do a half width Skeleton Scarf but just couldn't get started.

Last month, I was thinking about starting the scarf again and looked at Skeleton scarf and the other patterns. I decided I wanted something fancier for the middle and settled on the Chevron scarf. So, far I have the borders and one full repeat of the chevron plus a little. It is about half the width of the actual pattern. I think I will get the full length or very close to it.

When I am not knitting on it, the yarn is staying in the zip lock back it came it. This might be a bad idea some where else. I have heard that fiber felts in moist climates when zip locked. So, far I have been lucky.

So, far the yarn has been easy to work with.

Stash Again

Back to the subject of stash. I thought I would be good. The Knitting Guild of Denver had a white elephant stash silent action. I took four items, one of them was yarn. That would be minus one batch of yarn, right?

The only problem is, I won two bids, so the night ended with plus two batches of yarn. It should be easy to use up the new yarn. It is the type I use for charity knitting, machine washable and good for hats or baby blankets.

The net change in stash was plus one.

It gets better, I also paid for the dye workshop which will add two more skeins of yarn at the end of the work shop. I think I get to count them as one if I do the same color thing to them. Or I could just plan to use up two stash items.

Probably shouldn't ply the yarn on the spinning wheel just yet. Yes, the count could just be going higher this month.

What I Accomplished Last Year

It is February and probably time for me to mention what I finished last year. So, here is the list of Finished Objects.
Completion List for 2008

Sewing
- Hawaiian quilted pin cushion
Spinning
- red roving (402 yds) ~ worsted, plus 25 navajo
- 3 ply llama yarn, white, black and brown
Beading
- Scotty charm
- Spilt decision earrings
- Blue cats eye bracelet
- Orange wood bead bracelet
- Frog amethyst heart necklace earrings
- Copper cat outline earrings
- Copper fishing fly earrings
Knitting
- 3 pair Gentleman’s Plain Winter Socks
- Blue/black gentleman’s shooting socks
- Bear foot harbor socks
- Toe up coreolis socks
- 1 pair socks for dad
- 4 dishclothes
- Christmas Posy Tea Cosy
- 16 stars
- hat and mobius scarf out of Salsa DK (purple)
- Basket weave scarf and hat
- Spider/birds eye shawl
- Idella shawl
- Oregon shawl
- Prayer Shawl in blue
- 7 Ladies beret
- 8 rolled brim hat
- 3 stocking hat
- Swirl hat in two tones of blue
- 8 grey hat with aran background pattern
- scarf out of the combo beige yarn
- Pink breast cancer awareness scarf
- Vintage Velvet scarf
- Seaman’s half diamond scarf
- Absolutely Positively Reversible Scarf – narrow pattern.
- 4 knitted bead bracelets
- 2 Baby Surprise Jackets Blue, White, and Red

Knitting wins and obviously not much sewing got done. I really should do a couple of sewing projects.