Earlier this year, my sister-in-law emailed me and asked if I would be willing to make a couple of scarves for her. I was completely flattered by the request, and excited to do it for her! I had been wanting to try a couple of scarf patterns, but as I'm not much of a scarf-wearer, there was little point in making them for me, so it became a perfect blend of circumstances.
I had on hand some amazingly soft and beautiful red EllaRae Extrafine Heathers yarn that was just begging to be something, and I found a perfect pattern for it. I absolutely LOVED working with both the yarn and the pattern. I did have to hunt down some more of the yarn, as the scarf took 4 balls, and I only had 2 to begin with, but that was the only hang-up with this scarf.
the whole scarf the stitch pattern in detail
I LOVE how the stitch pattern lends to the scalloped edge...and if I wore scarves, I would make one of these in every color!
For her second scarf, I have been wanting to learn Tunisian Crochet and, again, waiting for the perfect project to come along to learn/ practice it. Prior to starting the scarf, I did make a small dishcloth to practice the different Tunisian stitches, but generally speaking this was my first tunisian project. This was also done with a new-to-me yarn. It's Universal Yarn brand's Uptown DK that I found at my local yarn shop. It's acrylic, but goes against every "eww, acrylic" stereotype there is. It's so soft and was absolutely lovely to work with and it has a shine that I'm afraid my photos just didn't capture. I will DEFINITELY be buying more of this in the future!
full scarf stitch pattern detail
Tunisian crochet came pretty easily to me. I did have to restart the scarf once because I was adding an extra stitch when turning, so I had one edge longer than the other. And I made the scarf quite a bit shorter than I wanted to, simply because I ran out of time to keep adding on and still be able to send them to my sister-in-law for her birthday.
I'm still lamenting the fact that I don't wear scarves much...because I would love to make more of both of these!
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