A holiday gift-to-be for the boss-man. For reasons best described as “magical”, this scarf has single-scarfedly helped me overcome my hatred of both cables and charted patterns, because the output is just so lovely and rewarding.

NOT winning my affections is this damned yarn, which I scored on a super-crazy-hello discount: Tons of debris; dramatic width and color variations from skein to skein; riddled with knots; and prone to breaking at the slightest tug. Ultimately decided not to block, as many reviewers said that they lost stitch definition after doing so.

Modeled by my ever-patient husband - who happened to have the flu the day that I finished weaving in the ends, but gamely wrapped the thing around his neck for photos.