A Birthday Scarf!

I started knitting just a few months ago. I decided I was going to teach myself, so I bought a book, some needles, and a skein of yarn from the crafts store on base. There was a LOT of trial and error. I’m sure that first project heard a few naughty words here and there, and I pulled it all apart several times in frustration. But…where there’s a will, there’s a way, or so they say. I completed that first project and decided to make another scarf trying a new pattern. This one I wanted to make for Andrew’s mom as part of her birthday gift. Her birthday is New Year’s Eve, so I didn’t really have any downtime between my Christmas projects and this one!

The pattern is called Stockinette Seed Diamonds. It’s from “The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting,” which is the book I used to teach myself to knit. If I could make this over again, I would put a border on it, because it does have a tendency to roll up on itself a bit. I had it pressed smooth in the pictures.

The yarn I used for this was a wool blend — so light and soft! Plus I loved the color. I used 2 balls of yarn for this, which gave me a pretty good length.