Column of Leaves scarf

Yarn/線材: Ella Rae Silkience (41% Cotton/39% Modal/12% Silk/8% Rayon) #6 Purple Gray - 3 skeins/捆

Pattern/圖樣: Brooke's Column of Leaves Scarf

Needles/針號: Knit Picks Options #5

Size/尺寸: 8" wide (寬), 64" long (長), 50 repeats

Druation/製作日期: 5/7/07~5/17/07

Finally finished it and made it for my son's teacher, yeah!! The first picture shows a closer color of the scarf. This is a fun scarf to knit, the pattern is not hard, but I kept the pattern in front of me the whole time cause I don't have time for mistakes. At beginning, I was going to use wool yarn for this project, but it's closer to summer, a wool scarf gift seems a little odd, and it's too warm to work with. I found this Silkience at LYS, I like the blend, and it feels nice to the touch, I decided to give it a try. I'm really happy with this yarn, love the color too, normally I'm a purple person, but I'm not sure if the teacher would love the color I chose, so this one turns out to be okay, I think (at least Mom loves it!). I usually don't like to knit a "present" for someone unless I know the person will appreciate it, but I think mostly is because I don't feel confident that my FOs are good enough :-P.

終於完成囉!趕呀趕的就怕來不及在20號以前給兒子的中文老師.第一張照片比較接近原色,第二張特寫的顏色跑掉了.這條圍巾有不少人織過真的很漂亮,所以選這個圖樣送老師.圖樣說實在的不難,但我還是乖乖的把圖樣放在面前,就怕不小心織錯得拆就慘了!還好都很順利!在選線上本想用美麗諾或絲線,但是夏天快到了,送毛的圍巾感覺有點怪(也不可能織件小外套),在毛線店看到這組線摸起來又軟又舒服,又只要手洗,應該不難照顧,就決定用它啦!這顏色也蠻特別的,灰中帶紫,紫中帶灰,應該很容易接受吧!我通常不太把我完成的織品送人,除非我知道收的人會懂的珍惜;也是因為我還不太有自信心自己的成品夠好!哎呀!不管了,反正是一個心意嘛!如果人家不欣賞下次就不送囉!!

Column of Leaves scarf

It's closer the end of school year, even though my son is only 3, he does have preschool teachers and a Chinese school teacher....that means I probably should prepare somethings for the teachers. I'm thinking about making the Brooke's Column of Leaves scarf for his Chinese school teacher. I want to use yarns that's easy to take care of, and it's almost summer now, I really don't want to work with wool or merino. I thought about silk, but not sure about the "easy care", so I went with this Ella Rae Silkience, it's got cotton, modal, silk and rayon, feels pretty good. I think the first two pictures show a closer color of the yarn, it's kind of like a purple-gray-ish color, the 3rd one is too blue-ish. I got till 5/19 to finish this project, with my slow speed, I better hurry....hopt it'll turn out pretty.

看到不少格友織這條圍巾,真的蠻漂亮的,決定來織一條給兒子的中文學校老師.因為夏天到了織條圍巾其實有些不太合適,但是我也只會這個,圍巾也不用管大小,任何人都可以用嘛! 我選了很久才決定用這組線,先織看看,若是不滿意再來換花瓣圍巾吧! 反正用鉤針也會比較快,應該可以趕在5/19前完成吧!! 加油喔!