knitting in the dark

I know I said in my last post that I shouldn’t be knitting for BQ since he hasn’t worn the socks I made him ten months ago, but he special requested either a scarf in green or charcoal or argyle socks with his initials. Adding initials inside the diamonds of the argyle pattern would require big diamonds which would require intarsia, which I don’t particularly like.

So I made him a Henry Scarf for his birthday. This is the second scarf I’ve knit from this pattern - and I will not be doing another any time soon if I can help it! I timed myself doing this one and each row takes me between 14.5 and 16 minutes to complete; multiply that by 126 rows in this instance and you get 1827-2016 minutes or 30.45-33.6 hours just to knit the darn thing! And that doesn’t include weaving in the ends or blocking.

This was his present for his birthday the first week of December. I’ve been visiting my parents in the Seattle area since then so I haven’t seen him wear it, but he said he wore it yesterday when it was 17 degrees in New York and that it was nice and warm.

pattern: Henry Scarf from Fall 2007 Knitty (ravelry project link)
yarn: 6x Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Baby in “340039″ Forest Green
needle: 3.25mm
started: 23 November 2009
completed: 14 December 2009
mods: I did five 24-row pattern repeats across 488 stitches, which is more than recommended, but I wanted to make sure the scarf was going to be long enough since the last Henry I knit was a couple inches short of the desired length and BQ is taller than six feet.
dimensions: 70″ x 7.5″ before washing; I expect some shortening after a wash as my swatch suggests it will shrink up by about 8″

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