Peaks and Valleys

This is not a post about 2009. It is a shallow post about a scarf using the Peaks and Valley Scarf pattern from the 2006 Knitting Calendar and one skein of yarn.

The yarn is Stacy Charles Ritratto which doesn't have much stretch, hence the size 8 needles. It is pretty yarn and somewhere hiding in the stash is another skein in a different color. I know the other skein exists because it is on my stash list. It hasn't been seen recently.

Back to this scarf, it knit up quickly with one less repeat across than the pattern calls for. I was trying to stretch the yarn a bit since there was only one skein. It came out to 5 inches by 64 inches which is a respectable scarf size. Not long enough to be in style this year but long enough.

The last two photos show the different sides of the scarf. I think it looks nice on both sides. Even though they aren't identical, I doubt if too many people will notice from a distance.