Thank You Scarves

I was able to visit with some extended family at the beginning of the year.  It was a great trip and I really enjoyed getting to visit with people that I love and don't get to see very often.  To thank them for their hospitality, I made two scarves - one for each of them.

RuThan's scarf used beautiful Malabrigo Twist yarn in the Piedras colorway.  The scarf was a free one that I found through Ravelry a while back.  It's called Fence Rows Scarf and can be found on this blog.

Tom's scarf was knit with bright, bold yarn from Virginia van Santen Painted Yarn, which is 100% merino wool.  I just used a simple shifting rib pattern, since the yarn provides a lot of color and texture on its own.

I hope they enjoy their thank you scarves!

Christmas Presents

I'm knitting two scarves for my manager and my other team member at work.  I really like how they're coming along.  The first one is pink alpaca.  I'm just doing a shifting rib stitch pattern; every 12 inches I shift the ribbing (K2, P2) over by one stitch.

I'm also knitting a merino scarf out of Ella Rae yarn.  It's a relatively simple pattern that involves increasing and decreasing and using two different sized needles.

Baby Alpaca Scarf

I recently purchased a couple skeins of Luxury Collection Baby Alpaca yarn.  It's deliciously soft!

At first glance it just looks kind of brown, but when you really look at it, it's actually got various colours to it, greens and reds and such.  


I'm making a scarf for myself and it's just ribbing.  I tend to think that when knitting with alpaca, ribbing seems to allow you to really feel the softness of the fibre the best.