The Scarf is Complete!

I finished the scarf before Christmas, which was intended for my husband.  It's beautiful, soft and exactly what he wanted.  Unfortunately, it's too short for him.  I did not have enough skeins to make a suitable length for a man.  I know, get another skein, right?  Well I tried, I exhausted my resources.  This dye lot was not being produced any longer.  I mean, it had been over a year since I purchased the current skein.  I searched Amazon, called other yarn shops, even in other states, and nothing. I finally gave up and blinded off the scarf.  It was complete, but fit for a child or woman, definitely not a man. Needless to say, my husbands disappointed that the scarf won't work for him.

I was speaking with a friend about my conundrum, and she had two skeins of the same yarn, weight and everything, in a different color.  She offered to give them to me.  Well, I was SO excited!  I mean, I could actually make a new scarf for my husband and he could have it before the winter was over!  Well, I was very grateful and very appreciative to have this wonderful gift of free yarn.  So I accepted them, naturally.  It was a completely different color from what we had before, but beautiful none the less.  I showed my husband, I was very excited to say the least and he popped my bubble.  He told me that it was indeed a beautiful color, but he didn't want that color, and it would make a beautiful scarf for a girl.  Really?  I told him to wait until it's been knitted a bit, and he can see the full potential of this beautiful color.  It went with most everything he owned and wore regularly, he would surely see it's potential.  So, I began working on it and produced a good swatch for him to look at, and again with the "It is a good color, and it will be a wonderful scarf for a woman.".  I was defeated, I accept this now.  Now my quest is to find a few new skeins to make my husband a scarf that will actually work for him in a color that he will love. It will happen before Christmas 2013.  It's just a scarf, it shouldn't take that long, right? This is my goal, we'll see how well i fare with this before, lets say August.

Just breath..

My family has adopted a new dog, she's a month new with us and she is a sweet 2 1/2 year old Lab/Shar Pei mix.  She looks nothing like a Shar Pei, and more closely resembles a smaller black lab.  She's a Pound Puppy, through and through.  We have no idea what her history is, so we know nothing of her potential "quirks".  Well, I think we've recently discovered some of them.

Let me give you a bit of back story first.  For the past year, I have been slowly knitting a scarf for my husband, a beautiful, soft, cashmere scarf.  My goal is to complete it before this coming winter.  Time is crunching closer to my end date, so I've recently picked it up again after having put it aside this summer due to purchasing our first home (that's a different train of thought for another time).  Well, my dog, Kayla, has been exploring our home and getting familiar and comfortable with her new surroundings.  This is a wonderful experience to witness and be able to participate in, I have wanted a dog for such a long time.  Anyhow, this past Monday, she wanted to explore my knitting box and discovered my nicely wound ball of cashmere yarn for my scarf project.  She wanted to taste it's silky smooth texture between her teeth evidently, and tore this ball apart, like she has her toys before.  I caught her red pawed, and was utterly dismayed at what I saw.  Hindsight I wish I would have taken a picture of it, but my emotions were too close to the surface to think rationally about the whole situation.  Luckily, she did not touch the scarf that has been already made.  I was at a loss, I cried.  I admit it, I broke down and cried like a child who's favorite toy just broke. This is what I was untangling for the next four hours.  Mind you, these pictures are after two hours of untangling already.

This is my end product of dangling:  I'm quite proud of myself, I'm not going to lie this was a very trying task for me.  I look forward to being able to finish this scarf before the winter comes, so that I can actually give this to my husband.  You can already see the project taking form, when I'm done, I'll be sure to take better pictures of it and show you the end product.