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<\/a><\/center>\nSpecs: Rickenbacker Scarf<\/a> by Kristen Kapur (free Ravelry download)
\nYarn: Malabrigo Silky Merino in Raspberry, purchased at Tangled Yarns<\/a> while we were on holiday at Christmas
\nNeedles: 4.5mm
\nI bought the yarn while we were on holidays at Christmas. We visited Tangled Yarns, and I wanted to buy something, but didn’t really have anything in mind. The Malabrigo was luscious, so I grabbed the two remaining skeins and decided it would make a gorgeous scarf. And it did, but it took me forever to decide which scarf to make!
\nI trawled Ravelry until I found this one, but I knew I had way more yarn than the scarf needed so I made a few alterations.
\nTo start with I cast on 33sts so I could do three pattern repeats instead of two, to make it wider. The pattern has you do the ruffle in a contrast colour, but I did a few pattern repeats, then went back and pulled out the provisional cast one and did the ruffle from the other end of the ball I was knitting with. Then I just kept doing repeats until I ran out of yarn.
\nThe pattern has you knit all the way to the other end, then do the second ruffle. But as the pattern is directional, I knit the two halves in exactly the same way, and grafted the scarf in the centre so that both ends would match. (I’m a bit picky that way!)
\nAnd ta-da! I love it! The library where I’m doing my work placement right now is like an icebox, so I wore it to work on Tuesday, and it was perfect. It’s pretty long, but that’s good for me, because I like to double it up for extra warmth. It’s nice and soft around my neck, and waaaarm.
\nPerfect!
\nAnd even better, I also finished the back of Shimmer.
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<\/a><\/center>\nAnd started seaming Tempest – I’m making up for lost time now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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