This scarf-in-progress may be familiar to long-time readers with good memories: it first appeared here eleven months ago! It's perfect 'pick up and put down' knitting - no complicated stitch patterns, no counting rows - so as it requires little concentration I tend to do a bit when I'm watching television.
If it's so simple, why isn't it finished after nearly a year? Well, it's laceweight yarn so progress is slow, and I'm such an infrequent viewer of tv or DVDs that it spends most of its time tucked in the basket.
Though the light today wasn't great for photographs so the colours of the scarf in the pictures don't sing quite as they really do, you can see from our Christmas wreath made from garden cuttings just how apt the yarn's name 'Undergrowth' is (for details follow the link above).
I shall have to get a move on if I'm to finally emerge from the undergrowth within a twelvemonth of venturing into it!
I have sooo many unfinished projects laying around. [I, too, love simplistic projects that are mindless yet are beautiful.] Which is probably why I haven't posted on my blog...which doesn't offer any reason why I haven't been visiting yours. Regardless, I'm back for my regular visits! :)
Posted by: Melissa! | 19 January 2009 at 10:43 AM
Gorgeous colour!
Posted by: Darlene | 19 January 2009 at 12:57 PM
I can't knit. My mother tried (and failed) to teach me, I just didn't like the feel of yarn in my fingers, a bit like some people (my husband, for example) who don't like the feel of velvet, it makes them cringe. However, I always enjoy seeing your lovely work, and I just wondered whether you'd read any of the knitting novels around at the moment? I've just read and enjoyed The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood, and now I'm reading The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. I enjoyed first and I'm now enjoying the second, esp. as the young daughter in this novel, aged only 12, is a dab hand at producing some lovely cakes for the knitters to eat on a Friday night.
Posted by: Margaret Powling | 19 January 2009 at 02:02 PM
It looks lovely Cornflower and perfect for winter evenings. Can you tell me, did the pattern come from Post Yarn too?
Posted by: Claire | 19 January 2009 at 05:05 PM
Claire, just cast on 45 stitches (or whatever odd number you fancy).
Row 1: *knit 1, slip 1; repeat from * until last st.; knit 1.
Row 2: knit
Simple!
Posted by: Cornflower | 20 January 2009 at 09:52 AM
TypePadHow simple, how pretty. Thank you so much. Love your new blog - full of admiration! Regards, Claire.
Posted by: Claire | 20 January 2009 at 11:50 AM
Oh - this is so pretty! Enjoy it!
Posted by: Jen | 27 January 2009 at 04:30 PM