The Moebius Scarf is finished! (JOY!) Finished this morning, folded, seamed, and done done done! It's so fuzzy and warm - I can't wait to wear it.
The pattern was from the summer issue of Creative Knitting, and the yarn was 5 skeins of Aerie by Moda Dea, colour "Denim". It's a darker blue than how it looks in the picture, but the picture does show the fuzziness and the drape of it - very neat!
I decided against weaving in the ribbon after all - it doesn't show up enough to be worth the effort, honestly. So the ribbon is in the stash for another project - maybe a long scarf for next year's Christmas party!
In other FOG news, Hufflepuff (Harry Potter scarf #2) is done done done, and I'll be casting on tonight to start Ravenclaw (HP #3).
Also today (been busy, it's just after lunch!) I re-organized the stash into two under-bed storage boxes - that don't fit under the bed. D'OH! So, they fit under the pool table instead. The important thing is, everything fits - except for the yarn I got off eBay that arrived yesterday. Let me tell you about the eBay yarn...
For about $20 (that's CDN funds), I got a huge box containing probably about 5 lbs of yarn. All colours, all weights, some little twists, some full skeins, lots and lots of black (can we say black socks? I think we can...). Dumped it all out on the floor and had a fun half-hour sorting through it - some to DM-I-L2B, some for me. Found that a lot of it was in goregeous earthy-fall-type colours, so it's been collected into a sub-stash for what will be a "scrapghan" of complementary colours in lots of different textures - probably smallish squares to get the full effect. Of course, having read in The Yarn Harlot about the dangers of doing large afghans from small squares, I was briefly thinking of just tying it all together and going for it, but I want to do some different types of stitch blocks, kind of a learn-as-I-go sampler thingy. It may take years, who knows? But I've got lots of pretty colours to start with.
Wow - long-winded is me today! Just one more thing to add, I visited a new-to-me LYS yesterday and grabbed a totally gorgeous skein of Fibre Artist wool from home (that's Halifax, NS). The colours are indescribably beautiful - it looks like the ocean - honestly, I got so homesick looking at this yarn! It came with a nice simple triangle shawl pattern, which I'm holding in reserve for the dark dreary days of winter - think the first part of March when everything's gray and mucky. It'll be stunning then.
Today is kind of gray and mucky too - been raining most of the week with no end in sight for at least 2-3 days, so I'm hibernating with my stash. Scarf, blankie, and shawl are the plan for the rest of today. And some hot chocolate. And a brownie. Yes, the last brownie is calling me!
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