My First Attempt at Knitting a real item!

After many, many fits and starts, I have some rows completed for a knitted scarf!!!  I'm very excited!  Thank goodness for Youtube and a video that showed me how to cast on.  I first tried to do it from a book very unsuccessfully.  Once I got the hang of casting on and learning the knit and purl stitches, I tried my hand with the stockinette stitch (one row of knit, one row of purl) but it was curling rather badly so I ripped it out.  I found out later that it is supposed to do that.  LOL  Perfect for a hat, but not a scarf, I guess.  Anyway, these rows are done with K2, P2, beginning and ending with K2.  I'm very proud of it even though it's definitely not perfect.  I found that knitting is pretty forgiving with tension, but how to hold the yarn and trying to get my stitches consistent are my biggest challenges right now.

Scarf #19 April 19, 2011

I used the Bergamot Scarf Pattern found at the Lion Brand web site (pattern link).  The colors I used were Red Heart Medium Sage and Red Heart Aspen Print.

Scarf #18 April 6, 2011

I can't be sure if this pattern is copyrighted somewhere on the vast wide web, but I worked this scarf up as follows:


With a beginning chain of 26, dc in 4th ch from hook and in next 2 ch, skip 2 ch, 5 dc in next ch, sk 2 ch, dc in each of next 3 chains to the end.  Ch 2, turn.  ROW 2 onward: dc in next 2 st, sk 2 st, 5 dc in next st, sk 2 st, dc in each of the next 3 st etc. to the end; ch 2, turn.  Repeat Row 2 until desired length.

I used Red Heart Bright Yellow.

Scarf #17 April 5, 2011

This scarf is done in Red Heart Gemstone (love this color!) using pattern #99 from the book "101 Crochet Stitches" by Jean Leinhauser (ISBN: 0-88195-692-7).  I worked this scarf width-wise with a starting chain of 27 (multiple of 4 + 3).

Scarf #16 April 4, 2011

This is a great pattern designed by Sandi Marshall called "Slanted Vs and Ridges Crocheted Scarf" which can be found here.  I used Red Heart color Grey Heather and started with a beginning chain of 210, which made the scarf approximately 60 inches long.  Thanks, Sandi, for such a nice scarf pattern!

Scarf #15 April 3, 2010

I did this scarf with Paton's Canadiana yarn color Medium Currant (10444).  It is a beautiful yarn, but seemed to me to be more of a sport weight than a worsted.  The pattern I used was #17 from the "101 Crochet Stitches" book by Jean Leinhauser and I started with a beginning chain of 28 (multiple of 8 + 4).

Scarf #14 April 1, 2011

I used Red Heart color Green Fleck (4361) to crochet this scarf using Kate's V-Stitch Scarf pattern.  I started with a beginning chain of 27 and it is worked by width (approx 6").