Wednesday 19 November 2008

Tube scarf

To go with the wristwarmers I eventually made a scarf, which I call the tube scarf for two reasons: firstly, a lot of it was knitted on the tube. Second, it is in stocking stitch, so it rolls itself up into a tube. This was a deliberate decision, as the wristwarmers are tubular themselves, and in stocking stitch. 

I wanted a long, skinny scarf that would be more decorative than warm. It started off like this: 
But this was obviously too short, so I carried it on for quite a bit longer, as you can see in this picture of the finished thing.
  
The finishing touch was a stretchy garter-stitch toggle to hold it together, decorated with crocheted flowers. It doesn't really show, but the flowers have 3 layers of petals, so are satisfyingly three-dimensional.  

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