Oh, one more.

[mistersmearcase]

This was the first one I made, out of Harvardish-colored merino wool, for WB. As you can see, it's super homemade-looking (M amusingly told me I could term its aesthetic wabi-sabi, which I guess means "crappy, but in a way judged to look intentional") but he really likes it so I guess that's a win. Sorry these were all taken on my desk. I bring my scarves to work every day and lay them out on the desk so Y, who is very nice about doling out approval, can come in and go "It looks GREAT!"

In theory I should try a sweater or something next but it's just so boringly fun to make a scarf, and it's a present people like. I have never been able to make presents for people because there wasn't anything I was good at making. Now I have a rather long list.

Comments

[herself_nyc]

Would you teach me? Do you think I could be taught in one session?

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

I realized I said something misleading about how it's all easy. What I meant to say is "it's all easy after you learn the first two things: knitting and purling" which, because I am spatially an idiot, took me aeons. I could try, but I suspect I would not be the world's most competent teacher.

(The example I always give of my spatial problems is I can't tell which way a gas station pump is telling me to insert my card...which may be lost on you as a lifelong New Yorker. But anyway it was very confusing to me at first exactly what constitutes the knit stitch for reasons I can't explain very well. So I finally just cast on twenty stitches and very slowly knitted and knitted and knitted until it was in my brain. And then I did the same for purling.)

[herself_nyc]

Actually, I share those 3-d spatial difficulties. And you don't have to try to teach me if you don't want to. :)

[ironed_orchid]

Scarves are a great way to learn new stitches, too.

I made one for apperception in a similar red to that, but it was an alpaca blend, so a bit more fuzzy looking.