Stained Glass Scarf

I have a copy of Melanie Falick's book Handknit Holidays, and the Stained Glass Scarf has fascinated me since I first leafed through it.  Of course I don't have the listed yarns, or even anything close to the required weights. 

What I do have though, is four ton of 4 ply Posh sock yarn.  My perfect background colour arrived last week (Later from OOW) and then I hunted through said four ton for something ... that caught my eye, I guess.

Left to right: Refresh, Later, Camel.  I started off with Refresh, thinking that the yellow, green and peach would give a good contrast to the black and dark grey.  But I didn't factor in the varigation.  What looks good in socks, does not appeal quite so much in straight lines:

This is the "front" (coloured side) and the "back" (black side) stitched together in one photo.  I liked the middle two stripes on the colour side, but not the yellow, orange, blue, green combo on the outer edges.  I thought about wearing the scarf with just the black side showing - but that seemed defeatist.  Why knit a two-sided, double thickness, truely reversible scarf to only see one side?

So I changed to Camel, which is still varigated but it's tonal with light and dark browns.  It still doesn't sing to me like the photo in the book - but I will wear a brown/black scarf more.  And then I ripped back what had turned out to be a really large swatch, untangled the three different skeins of yarn (nightmare!) and started again. 

I've done about an inch so far, but it's going to be real. slow. going.  Did I mention it's sock yarn ... 4 ply on 3mm needles over 64 stitches.  I'm using the slip and slide method, which is potentially twice as slow (two passes for every one row), because I tried the two stranded method and messed up the pattern.  At this rate, the scarf will probably be done for next winter.

A moody Saturday Sky:

Unlike today, with its blue skies and wispy white clouds.  Today it's cold though, and they threaten snow for the middle of the week.  Brrrrr ....   

Comments

[Dee]

Girl, you are my hero.

[Mary-Lou]

Looks interesting, despite the slowness!