utterly unglamorous
I finished knitting my Milkweed scarf! I guess I’m fully on board with the “little triangle” scarf trend. I’m waiting for cooler weather to see if they’ll actually be wearable in my wardrobe, but in the meantime I’m fully addicted to knitting them. The projects go fast, and they’re a great use for special stash yarns.
Milkweed was a really fun knit. I’m sure part of that is due to the amazingly soft Malabrigo sock yarn.. I hadn’t worked with it before, and now I don’t understand what took me so long! Particularly in the loose gauge garter stitch of this scarf, it is just squishy and luxuriously soft. I’m wondering how well it holds up to wear and tear when made into socks? It seems almost too good to be true. Let me know if you have any first-hand knowledge! (Or would that be first-foot….?)
You’ll have to excuse the bleach-stained blocking shot. Once it’s dry, I have a feeling that the finished pictures of this scarf are going to be particularly lovely, so hopefully that will make up for my utterly unglamorous blocking technique. I really love the way the colors in this project kind of blended and shaded… it’s definitely a “multi” yarn, but not too busy for the pattern. Just right!
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Ooh – that’s lovely! I have yet to acquire any Malabrigo sock, but I’ll keep that pattern in mind when I do!
Very pretty! :) I really like it. I’ve got tons of those small triangle scarfs on my to-knit list, but I have to finish some WIPs otherwise I’ll never get anything done.. I used Malabrigo Sock for my Ishbel (which I have yet to post about, since it’s not blocked) and I liked knitting with it. I wouldn’t use it for socks, though, seems a waste.
Question about how you block: do you get good results just putting a towel on the floor and pinning it out? Does it stay in shape (like, does the towel scrunch up)? Or do you weigh down the towel sides so it doesn’t move? I have limited blocking space, and could greatly use my floor space, but I’ve never used towels just on the floor…
Nothing wrong with the blocking ugliness. I dont think blocking is glamourous at all! LOL
I actually thought the towel was a cool adobe wall or something, at first. I was wondering where the wall was. So, I guess I like your stained towel. Oh, and the shawl!!!
I’d like to take full responsability for using bleach on the towel.