ISE4

What a fantastic package from Becky in Houston. I am SO lucky to be her pal! The scarf is out of a brick red Noro yarn, with almost 2,000 cables (brave Becky!). I love the color and it is so wonderfully soft! Then there are two skeins of Cotton Comfort from Green Mountain Spinnery (20% organic cotton and 80% wool...and 100% soft and luscious). Four little tins of teas and tea bags (hooray since I don't have a tea ball!). She made the oven mitt, and had downloaded pictures of my cats from this blog, and incorporated them in the mitt! What a neat idea! There are chocolates, treats for the kitties, stitch markers, calendar...Wow!

ISE4 scarf done!

I finished my scarf for this International Scarf Exchange 4 and it's on its way! I'm really happy with the yarn and the pattern. Here's the "falling water" scarf" falling down my front door:

A closer view of the pattern:



It is a simple, 16 stitch repeat and gave me some confidence about something lacy. I used Euroflax in celery. It's true what knitters (and the directions) say about putting the finished item in the washing machine, maybe with a towel or two for friction. I just put it on a couple of towels, smoothed it out, and it dried without needing to pin it. It definitely is softer after being washed, and will continue to soften with each washing.



Ozzie observed the entire operation from the top of the kitchen cabinets:



Now it's back to the dreaded cotton sweater. I want it, but can tell that my gauge is different -- never should have put it down before it was done. Memo to self...