Mikknit

At her request, I’m knitting my sister a scarf with novelty yarn. This is a first for me - I do not do scarves, especially not 7-stitches-on-size-13 scarves that look like shag carpeting.

I found a ball of Patons Pooch (the Teal Leaves colorway). This stuff is a freaking PAIN. IN. THE. BUTT. I don’t know how many times I ripped it out before I got the right number of stitches on the needles, the first three tries resulted in way too many, a few too many, and where did that 7th stitch disappear to?

This yarn would really be happier knit up on something larger than a 13, but I do not own such a needle. I refuse to purchase giant telephone pole knitting needles for one miserable scarf. If this turns out too short, too ugly, too *whatever*, I will thoroughly enjoy burning it.

I’ll be off until after Christmas, so I hope everyone has a lovely holiday and gets in lots of knitting time. I know I’ll be doing my best to progress on several projects, hopefully the others less irritating than this bloody scarf.