New project time…

Thanks everyone, for the lovely comments on Buttercup! It’s definitely my favourite FO so far.

Now that Buttercup is done, I think I need a small project to work on. The Cashmere Scarf from the latest Australian Creative Knitting mag caught my eye. It’s a lacey scarf with eyelets, it looked so lush in the picture, simple and elegant. It’s supposed to use up only one skein of the 4-ply Handmaiden Cashmere from Purl Yarns, and I guess it would be a dream to use that. But unfortunately budget doesn’t allow at this time (plus it’s currently out of stock), so I’m using some Filatura Di Crosa “Zara” yarn from stash, which was left over from the Beaded Cardigan. The yardage is less than the recommended yarn, but I don’t mind, it will just be a bit shorter. At the moment I’m only about 20cm into the scarf.

The CK mag seems to have lots of problems with getting their patterns right. Some of the patterns are nice, but lots of times I have heard of people complaining about the errors in the patterns, things like missing charts, gauges that are way off, or sometimes even no gauge/yarn information at all (although things seem to be getting better). This scarf pattern, for example, has a rather glaring error. It says to cast on 24 stitches, but the pattern for the next row does not add up to 24 stitches. It’s very annoying, as I had to restart a few times. But in the end I worked out the right pattern. If anyone’s interested, the pattern should read (correction in bold):

Every row: P2, *yrn, P2tog, K2, P2* yrn, P2tog, K2