I bought this 50 gram ball of self patterning, variegated, sock yarn more than two years ago. At first, I started knitting yoga socks but then spring came and I put the project away. I tend to only knit during the colder months of the year. The next cold season, I decided to unraveled the yoga socks an and started knitting a pair of plain socks. I did this because I thought I’d get to wear them more often than yoga socks. Since, as I said above, I only knit during the colder months, the unfinished pair of regular socks got stashed away when spring came. (just like the yoga socks did). When this fall came and the mood to knit struck me again, I brought out the pair of socks and started to unravel the project again. This time it started off as a scarf. It took long to knit as the yarn was so fine, but I do like the way it turned out. Fortunately, I completed the scarf just before the “Big Freeze” and seeing as how cold it is this year, there is no way I will be unraveling this yarn again.
I really love the way this self patterning yarn is engineered to create intricate fair isle design without having to use multiple threads of different colored yarns. All I did was cast on 40 stitches and knitted 5 rows of garter stitch at the beginning and end of the scarf. For body of the scarf I used 30 stockinette stitches flanked by 5 garter stitches on either side, until the ball of yarn was finished.