Back to a Regular Schedule

Hiya to all,

We should now be back to a regular schedule of posting our amazing craftiness. Holidays are done, travel is done, we are both calmer and more relaxed and able to focus on making things. We are big believers in "keep calm and carry on" but a friend has said she prefers "get excited and make things" and that is a good idea to.
Of course our first back for regular scheduled program must be about scarves.  I have two to show you today, and both are a little different.
First up is what I call my -20 scarf (and that means I'll probably be wearing it tonight).  A friend gave some some gorgeous merino wool malabrigo and I did a basketweave stitch and then she idly mentioned that the yarn felts amazingly.  A little light in my brain went off and here is the finished project:

The textured stitch really held up to the felting and it is a solid piece of fabric now.  Whenever I have it with me, people have to squish it because it is really squishy and neat.

The other scarf I have to show you is neat as well.  I had received amazing birthday yarn from a friend and had many thoughts on what to do with it, but couldn't quite find the right thing.  Then in a recent magazine there was the perfect pattern.  The one alteration I did was to sew the ends together is that the scarf is a long loop that I can wrap around a bunch.

Here my lovely assistant is holding the scarf so that you can see that it is one big loop.

Here it is looped around my neck.  I can loop it around two or three times, which means again extra cozy.  A close up will show the stitch a little bit better.

It is this great mix of chain and single crochet that it has drape and these neat gaps that show off the different colours in the yarn.
Finally we close this day with a picture of b.b. reading a crochet magazine.  Seriously I was looking for a pattern and got up to get a drink and this is what I came back to:

take care.