There aren’t very many good knitting patterns on the internet for masculine scarves. There also aren’t many days of winter left here in The South. Last weekend I had the chance to finish a new scarf for Ty. He wanted a shorter and thinner scarf that the ones he owned.

I started doing a 3×3 rib, but the rib really made the width too thin. I converted the middle ribs to seed stitch, and widened the scarf. The thought was to make it thickest at the middle part. That part should cover him from beard to jacket opening. The two tails should wrap around the back of his neck and tuck back into the jacket in the front. It needed to be a scarf that would work with only a sports coat for his early morning walks to school.

Model picture forthcoming, until then the file cabinet and the violet will have to show it off.

If anyone has some scarf-making to do, I’d be happy to derive the pattern, but only if someone wants it.

Finished the short sleeved fair isle sweater from the Vogue 2009 Holiday issue.

Notes on this sweater: two rounds of seed stitch is not adequate. Two rounds with a long-tail cast on makes all of the cuffs really flippy. I added a round or two in places. On the neck, when I added a round or two, I continued the raglan decreases every other row. Chart 2 is incorrect. Columns 16 and 28 on row 14 show stitches in light blue. It should be light blue on row 12 instead of row 14. Row fourteen stitches in columns 16 and 28 should be dark blue to complete the cross motif.

A sentimental note on this sweater. I purchased the yarn and the pattern with a gift certificate from my husband while we were on my birthday trip to Fort Smith, AR. The green I purchased for the sweater appeared almost brown when I used it. I needed something closer to a lime green. Just then, I remembered a scrap ball of lime green I had from a friend who passed away in 2008. The tiny ball of green yarn worked perfectly!

I’ve been super busy lately, but I had some time to start Teva Durham’s Ballet T-shirt from the knitting Loop-d-Loop book.

Cotton has never been my favorite medium, but is necessary in the hot, humid environment Arkansas wields from spring to fall. I’m really enjoying this work in progress. I’m working on extending the length of the top to the mid-hip so it works with the lower-cut pants of the late 2000s/late oughts.

I’m using Cascade Yarns “Sierra” in color #03, an off-white.

I made my mother a labyrinth rug last Christmas, and I wanted one for the tower. Right now I’m in the middle of one.

I started it earlier this summer to use up some yarn scraps. Now I’m waiting on some very special yarn scraps to finish it up.