I love the Yarn Harlot’s One Row Handspun Scarf. I did it for a Christmas gift (White Elephant) a few years ago and the ladies fought over who got it. I have to say, THAT is a good feeling, especially when those doing the fighting aren’t knitters in any way, shape, or form. Recently, a really close friend started knitting, and she wanted a simple scarf pattern that went just a bit beyond “k2,p2″ or the garter stitch scarf. I thought of it, and wrote it down for her because it has just the right combination of “stuff a beginner can know” (the knits and purls) and “new stuff that keeps it exciting” (the knit through the back loop) that can keep a scarf from being a total drag. It also has the handy “knit until you can stand it no more, or you run out of yarn” directive that the Yarn Harlot is so fond of doing, which makes it nice for a newbie.
After I wrote it down, I thought it would be nice to make one for myself. So I did, out of my very first official handspun yarn (my first “unofficial” handspun yarn was a series of silk hankies. ) This stuff is the first stuff I spun and plied. Sadly, I wasn’t particularly interested in much outside of “Look! I made yarn!” at that point, so all I can say about it was that it was a merino top, with sort of a maroon/wine/purple-y deal to it, spun somewhat haphazardly and plied together. It sat on my shelf for a while (I thought it wanted to be a purse….I was wrong) until I pulled it out to make the scarf.
I have to say, as my first finished item of the year, I’m rather pleased:
Not only did it actually turn out ok at the point at which I said “ENOUGH!” (For the record, about 4 feet in.) But the pattern worked great with the yarn, and it goes really nicely with the shawl pin I bought as a gift but decided to keep when I realized it would hold swing-y pregnant sweaters closed.
There may have been an attempt at a hat version of the pattern to go with it, but I ran out of yarn, and the resulting hat I refuse to show, on the grounds that I look like a Shriner while wearing it. Instead, I may actually try my hand at it again, with some red yarn, because I got a red coat about 3 minutes after finishing my wine colored scarf. Red Coat + Wine Colored Scarf you would think would go together, but really don’t at all.
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