My Favorite Scarf
Sometimes your favorite knitted item is not the most interesting or complicated piece you have ever knit. I have made blankets and gloves and socks and complicated cable or lace patterns etc. but my favorite thing I have ever knit is my scarf. I bought the yarn for this scarf when I was on vacation in New York with my husband (then boyfriend) at Purl Soho. We had so much fun that day wandering around cafe’s and galleries. I picked some kinda seventies colors in the lovely Blue Sky Alpaca Sport Weight.
I knit this scarf when I got home knitting every row in a super-simple garter stitch. A plain-jane stripey scarf. Then I started wearing that scarf everywhere. I wore it to school, on vacation, with every outfit I own, color coordination be damned! I wore it on a trip to Boston (here I am checking out Harvard).
It was a long scarf to begin with but as I wore it the knit stitches began to stretch out and it got longer and longer. I even closed the car door on it one time and it dragged down the streets of Vancouver! No matter, I still love my favorite scarf. It goes to show you that something hand-made doesn’t have to be difficult or particularly large-scale to be one of a kind and well loved.
