Friday, 24 October 2014

September..........

September has been glorious - day after day of sunshine, it's just a shame I had to be in work! The pattern is called scotch faggot cable and has both lace and cable stitches, the repeats made it very easy to do:

It's getting difficult to photograph the whole scarf now, but I love the way you can clearly see what a brilliant summer we have had.

August.........

A week on a Greek Island has contributed to the bright blue week during this month:
I used a quite complicated cable pattern during this month, it was really tricky to keep on top of whether I was going over or under and exactly when I needed to complete each cable - I don't plan to use such a complicated pattern again during this project!

 The overall scarf is now a useable length - just another 4 months to go and I think it's going to be much taller than I am!!

Thursday, 31 July 2014

July.........

The lovely summer has continued, in fact it has almost been too hot on occasion - at least the schools have now broken up so I don't have to try and teach in this lovely weather!

This month I have completed some very wide striped cables, worked with 3 stitches:


The scarf is now getting so long it is difficult to fit it all into a picture:

June........

June has been a lovely sunny month - hence the large chunks of pale blue. The pattern this month has been a pair of honeycomb stitch strips either side of two middle 5 stitch cables:


The scarf is now half way to the final length - if I go all the way to the 31st December it is going to be a very long scarf!!

Sunday, 1 June 2014

May........

This month I continued with the simple 4 stitch cables, introducing the 'falling leaves' pattern into the 12 stitch sections:
A few nice sunny days this month!

As you can see the overall scarf is starting to get quite long now, I'm on to my second ball of cream wool already.........

April.......

The 4 stitch cable pattern has continued this month but I have included some very large k1, p1, cables over the wider sections:
 The whole week of cream rows shows the week of the Saharan dust cloud - we didn't see the sky at all that week! 
The overall scarf, should be a third of the final length by now......

March.......

This month I have kept the 4 stitch cables and used a ripple stitch for the 12 stitch sections, this didn't quite turn out as I'd anticipated but as is often the case I quite like the effect!

 The scarf so far, a quarter of the way through: