Quick Scarf

My mom called me not that long before Christmas, and asked me if I would please make a scarf for a friend who did her a really big favor. Anyone else and I would have said absolutely not, but I have a soft spot for mom.

I didn't stop me from using chunky yarn and big needles though. Since mom said she'd get the materials (it's not that big a soft spot) I got some luscious Misti Alpaca Hand Paint Chunky. It's 100% baby alpaca and so great to touch. At the shop when we're slow sometime I wander over just to feel this yarn.

Next I grabbed a Barbara Walker stitch dictionary, and this is what I came up with.

All of the photos are terrible. Sorry. I almost forgot to take them at all until we were getting ready to take mom back to the airport. I slung the scarf around my neck and snapped a few shots. The lighting was terrible and I was trying to take pictures of my own neck. Forgive me.

I had thought about writing this up and putting it on Ravelry, but I don't have a single good photo of it. Hard to sell a pattern that way. Maybe I'll make it again, it did go very quickly.

The colorway I used is called Shiraz. It's not represented particularly well in any of those photos, but I'd say the middle one is the closest. Two hanks of the Misti Alpaca yielded a scarf about 5 feet long. Not super long by scarf standards, but since alpaca grows and grows and never really bounces back, I figured starting short was better than starting just right and having the scarf stretch down to the floor eventually.