Regression!

Karen Noe shetland wool. Ombre. I carelessly described it as variegated in a previous post, and I assumed it was selfstriping. When I wound it I realised each colour section is very long, and there's only one of each. I was a bit nonplussed by this discovery, I still like it but how can I use it to make the most of the long stretches of colour?

(I suppose the word "ombre" on the label might have told me this in advance if I had bothered to look it up. I don't know. I still haven't looked it up!)

A couple of days ago I came across a gorgeous scarf in progress at Maria's blog, and they yarn she's using is similar to mine. Turns out it's Karen Baumer's Multidirectional Diagonal scarf from 2003. It's perfect for my yarn. I cast on immediately, and now I am completely obsessed with it.

Most knitters seem to agree that the garter stitch scarf is the most appropriate beginner's project.

Not so for me. My first project was a
sweater with a (simple, I admit!) fair isle yoke. For years I would only knit sweaters. When I picked up knitting again in 2003 I focused on baby stuff, but it was still only sweaters and cardis, and the first few were all fair isle. Later I moved on to cables and lace. Socks was a first for me this Spring.

But I have never knitted a scarf. The chicken thing in the previous post was my first scarf ever. And now the Multidirectional scarf - my first garter stitch scarf!!!

I have to wonder though, where do I go from here? Squares? Swatches? Stop knitting? Just joking. It's not regression of course. This is comfort knitting. Zen knitting. Enjoying the process!