Monday 11 July 2011

Louder than a Hitchhiker...

I've finished my Hitchhiker Scarf! I've had my eye on the pattern for a while and when I saw a KAL was happening in the GothSocks group on Ravelry, I was helpless to resist! The pattern is simple but clever and addictive, once I had about 15 points I rationed myself to knitting 2 points a day to ensure I got other things done - otherwise I would have neglected everything else and knit this all day! I got 40 points in total, I've got a small ball of yarn left but my scales are broken so I don't know exactly how much but I would guess about 3 grams.

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The yarn is a delight to knit with and the colours are beautiful and so bright! I know some people are not big fans of garter stitch but I love it, it's so squishy and warm.

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I blocked it in the sunshine on Saturday morning, it dried in record time - in fact I spent longer looking for my blocking pins than it took for the scarf to dry. I looked and looked, couldn't find them, used dressmaking pins instead, remembered they were in a safe, sensible place in my knitting bag which is so unusual for me I didn't even bother looking there. I scare myself sometimes.

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Here I am wearing it, taking my own photo so it's not perfect but I can't tell you how much I love this, I might even break my 'never knit the same pattern twice' rule for it!

7 comments:

  1. That is fabulous. That pattern is on my must knit list. Every version I've seen, I've loved. There is something about garter stitch that softens striping and variegation in a way that I love.

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  2. You picked an amazing colorway. It turned out so awesome w/those points! So cute on you.

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  3. What a great scarf...I have an Attack of the wantsies!

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  4. This is lovely and the colours are gorgeous! Have a rosenrot Wollmeise hitchhiker started but found it a bit boring - you have now encouraged me to get on with it!!

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  5. This is beautiful! A great color on you!

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  6. i love your scarf but i love your frames even better. Who makes them???

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