I love knitting scarves. They can be as simple or complex as you want to make them, but generally are just a single stitch pattern repeated over and over again until the scarf is as long as you want it to be. No shaping. No gauge/sizing worries. Most yarns will do the job. All in all, they are pretty worry free to knit. When was the last time you heard of someone frogging a scarf?

The downside to all of this is that I don’t live in a very scarf friendly area. It’s 70+ degrees (F) for 7 months a year, and in the winter, daytime temperatures are usually in the 50s, with lots of rain. Not exactly prime scarf wearing weather. So, instead of knitting scarves for myself, I knit them for friends in cooler climates.

This scarf, for example, is off to a friend in Idaho who works at a ski resort. She’ll make good use of it I’m sure!

I knit this over the last week, mostly while in various auto shop waiting rooms. It’s the second “My so-called scarf” that I’ve made. I love the herringbone stitch pattern.

Specs:Pattern - My so called scarf

Yarn - Manos del Uruguay, I’m not sure which colorway

Needles - Susan Bates size 11 circular. They aren’t my favorite needles, but they’re the only size 11’s that I own.

And about the Estonian Garden Stole… no modeled pictures yet. The stole deserves to be photographed properly, and these days there’s not quite enough light left in the evenings after work. Hopefully there will be some time next weekend to take pictures of it.