I know I’m a bit late with the rest of the Christmas gifts, so please forgive me. I have a good excuse, and as soon as I think of it I will tell it to you. :-}
So, gift #2 went to my Aunt Debbie. It was the Green Apple Roving Scarf. I already bought the Wool-Ease super bulky denim blue yarn for my Aunt Paulette’s drop stitch scarf and decided to use that instead of the apple green in the pattern.
This was knit on size 35 needles and knit up pretty quickly. When I say pretty quickly I mean I was done in 4 hours. I started this scarf in my Weight Watchers meeting, did a few rows at the diner while waiting for my food, and finished it off watching 20/20. I have never knit something so fast. I thought I was doing something when I knit a washcloth in 2 days, but this trumps that.
This pattern went so fast, I was able to knit two of them with the same skein. My aunt loved it! She just kept saying how soft it was and that she wasn’t taking it off. She posed for her pictures and went about talking with family. True to her word, an hour later, she was still wearing the scarf. I would say this was another gift that went over very well.
So, the second scarf I thought I would keep for myself, even though I wrapped it up for a “just incase” gift. If I was able to get through the family Christmas Eve dinner without giving it away, it was mine to keep. Well, that didn’t happen. My Aunt Paulette, who’s favorite color is anything in the blue family, started placing requests as she got her coat and goodies to go home. She needed a purple and blue scarf to match her current outer wear. With that, I whipped out the blue scarf and said “Here ya go. Merry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa.” Even though she was pleased with the additional scarf, I don’t know if it got me off the hook for the purple scarf. I’ll see if she mentions it again before the fall rolls in this year.
