Red Scarf
Houston has been absolutely dreary these past couple of days. Rain as far as the eye can see. In the summer, it will rain like hell for about an hour, then Mr. Sun will show up and dry up those puddles. Not so this time of year - it’s been cloudy for days, cool and wet.
I suppose this is my way of saying that these photos aren’t terribly color accurate. Red is difficult enough to photograph, but add in the absolute lack of sunlight over the past few days, and it’s even worse. The scarf is a true red, with warm reddish-brown stripes.
Pattern: Mistake Rib. Cast on a multiple of 4 + 3, then do a 2×2 rib, starting with k2 every row.
Yarn: A mishmash of stuff in the stash - Lamb’s Pride Bulky (from a cone, color unknown) and Worsted (Medieval Red), and some Knitpicks Merino Style (Hollyberry).
The scarf is for the Red Scarf Project. I’ll knit for orphan college students, but not for homeless people in cold climates around the world, go figure. I also happened to have a bunch of red yarns in the stash, and a desire to work on anything but the Asymmetrical Cardigan (I’m also getting pretty close to having Sarcelle complete, yeah!).
My scarf is clearly an ode to the Manscarf - you can imagine what a bunch of mostly female knitters come up with when given red as the color to work with (sorry ladies, but purple is most certainly not red). I got the brownish yarn in The Great Yarn Swap of ‘06 - it was on a cone, and I didn’t realize that it was bulky weight until I started knitting it up. To match the weight of the brown, I double-stranded the Lamb’s Pride Worsted and Merino Style. The knitting went super quickly on 10.5 needles, I finished most of the scarf over the weekend.
Why didn’t anyone ever tell me how wonderful Mistake Rib is? So smooshy and comfy! I see more Mistake Rib scarves in my future - I feel like I have a ton of scarf-amounts (400 yards-ish) of yarn in my stash, and I need to start knitting some of it up!
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Nice scarf! I bet it was great for cheering you up on these dreary days. I am so ready for winter to be over.
Doesn’t that look great! And I love your models in the last pic…
You are the second person this week to mention the “mistake rib scarf” - and I’ve got a dumb question: what’s the mistake about it? I tried to Google and see if I could find a pattern for it - but even then didn’t get the “mistake” part… do you end up with a rib of three on the last one?
Even though purple isn’t red, that’s still a nice scarf! Looks really smooshy.
Yay - Yarn Swap yarn! I haven’t seen many FOs of yarn from the party yet, so this is exciting.
You might just have to make another one to keep, so the cats can sleep with it.
what a cooshy, cozy scarf!!!
That scarf turned out wonderfully! And I do love a mistake ribbed scarf! You’re right, they are wonderfully smooshy.
The scarf is beautiful. The color is gorgeous.
I love the scarf! I’ve been meaning to try a mistake rib scarf myself :)
It looks so cozy!
Very cool scarf! I tried the mistake rib and found it did not move along fast enough. Obviously I wasn’t using enough yarns - silly me, I just used one skein. I’ll see if I can’t scrounge more to go with it. Of course, it was Christmas and I was maybe a little impatient. Look at those kitties draped in wool, what a picture!
I too am a fan of the mistake rib. The scarf I was wearing tonight was mistake rib. And, yeah, it’s so sqooshy! I was sitting in class today mushing it up.
Turned out great! It does look nice and squishy. The cats seem to be getting along well too–so cute!
Mistake rib is fun to work, isn’t it? :D I like the colours of the scarf, and the stripes add a bit of character to it. (And the sleeping kitty adds more than just a little bit of cute!)
The scarf looks great! So do the kitties!