FO: Noro Striped Scarf

I told you I finished it:

Pattern: Noro Striped Scarf by Jared Flood (Ravelry Link)

Yarn: Noro Silk Garden – 2 hanks of colors 268 and 270 on size 8 bamboo circs

Started Knitting: November 17, 2008. Finished Knitting: November 10, 2009

Yes, it’s been a year since I started this scarf. I would work on it in fits and bursts when I needed some mindless knitting between more complicated projects. This is nothing more than 1×1 ribbing worked in two shades of self-striping yarn, which gives the scarf its shaded stripes.

The scarf could have been a few inches longer, but somewhere in the middle both yarns hit patches of color that were so similar, the stripes got muddied. So I skipped those colors entirely, which made the scarf a tad shorter but still long enough to wrap around at least once. See?

I made this for Mr. Martini, so I made sure to choose more “manly” colors than I might have chosen for myself. But I do like them, and would definitely wear this if I hadn’t already shown it to him and told him he could have it. In fact, when he saw this picture, he asked, “Wait, that’s my scarf, right?”

Yay! One more project off of the needles. I couldn’t be happier with it.