I started this with Caron Simply Soft, but it was going to turn out too wide. So, Micro Spun it is.

7/27/2010
This scarf has been delayed a few times for multiple reasons. One is that one of my size 5 Knit Picks interchangeable needle tips broke. Right after receiving an order where I replaced my size 4 tips. facepalm So I pulled out my Boye interchangeable set. Oh, yeah, I broke one of those size 5 tips, too. Eventually I decided to use one of each. Of course, they can’t go on the same cord, so I put a stopped on the other end of each cord, but they swing around and get in the way and get tangled in the yarn…it’s a mess.

The other reason is that it was getting SO boring using the written instructions. Great pattern, don’t get me wrong, it just needs a chart. I was trying to figure out how to make a chart the “right” way, with “no stitch” symbols in the right places to make everything line up properly, but I was failing miserably. I found out that woodsieknitter has been using a chart of her own, though, and she was kind enough to e-mail it to me! I just got that in my e-mail Friday (7/23). I’m unreasonably picky about charts, so I ended up using hers as a basis to make my own, and it’s finally flying along nicely. The chart still isn’t completely technically correct, and it doesn’t have the repeats nicely noted like woodsieknitter’s, so if anyone else needs a chart, hers is probably better. But it works for me, and it’s finally flying along nicely now.

8/5/2010
Yay! It’s done! A girl at work saw it and loved it so much that she asked me to make one for her. I told her I would if she brought me the yarn. Everybody is impressed by it because it looks so much more complicated than it really is. It looks like cables, but there aren’t any.