October 07, 2004
The Enigma Moves to Santa Fe...
Today was a fun day. I went to Knit NY. My main objective was to figure out what to do with the Enigma scarf. The deal is, they had a really lovely sample scarf at Weaving Works in Seattle where I bought the yarn. They said it was made from one skein. Well, my skein did not come anywhere close to being a full scarf. It's about 40 inches long, in fact. Not scarf length at all.
But lovely:
So at Knit NY today, they didn't have any Colinette Enigma, least of all any in Morocco. So I picked two other yarns which looked interesting and sort of matched the Enigma color-wise. Plymouth Eros in a largely off-white colorway and Diakeito Santa Fe, in a blue-grey-purple colorway (525 in the link).
Together, they knit up like this:
So what happened was, I decided to have a scarf that's half one yarn and half the other. And the really weird part, although you're not going to see it in this photo, is that I am getting the exact same gauge with the Santa Fe and the Eros together as I was with the Enigma. The scarf is the same width. Randomly lucky, I guess:
And since one of the new yarns is named Eros, the scarf is now called "The Erotic Enigma." Although I doubt that I'm going to tell that to the person who's going to receive it. God, I hope she likes this new idea of the half and half scarf. It's fun, right? Because you sort of have two scarfs, since you can wear either one or the other end sort of on the front of it, right? Right?
So, well, you know I wouldn't be me if I had survived the trip to the Knit Shop by also picking up just the skeins I "needed."
So how do you like this:
Another Diakeito yarn, Materie, in color 605. I'm really fond of it.
And I really just had a nice time sitting at Knit NY drinking coffee which had been brewed by a really cute guy and knitting. Yay!
Two other things: 1) Em: Congrats, you're Comment # 400 on the blog! (Maybe one day we should actually plan to intentionally be at KNY at the same time, btw).
2: Here's an idea for a scarf. Do you think it'll work? 4x4 rib, cabled. But the trick is, cable on the RS row and on the WS row so that it's double sided and doesn't really have a wrong or right side. I think I'm going to try it in the red Feeling I bought on eBay.
I LOVE that idea! I can't think of a reason it wouldn't work. I like the half 'n' half scarf idea, too. That scarf must feel great--the texture looks wonderful.
Woo woo! Comment #400! And yes, actually planning an intentional meeting sounds like a great idea.
(I have that Materie too, in #611--the beige/blue/magenta. Yet another scarf, but I'm trying to think of something more interesting than garter/drop stitch to do with it.)
Posted by: Em at October 7, 2004 10:23 AMGood save ! The scarf looks fab.I like your new yarn too.
Posted by: Emma at October 7, 2004 06:24 PMI think your scarf idea is fantastic! I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. Be sure to stagger the right side and wrong side cables so they don't all pull in at the same place, unless that's what you want, of course! I can't wait to see how it turns out.
Posted by: Beth at October 7, 2004 11:25 PMI can't wait to see how that scarf works up! What a fabulous idea....
Posted by: Rachael at October 8, 2004 01:53 AMJust bought the exact same Diakeito Materie this weekend - what are you going to do with yours?
Posted by: diane at October 11, 2004 08:53 AMI use Colinette enigma for knitting scarves all the time and they always end up quite long. I use size 10 needles and cast on about 22-25 stitches.
Posted by: Elizabeth at March 5, 2005 02:40 PMGood blog Jon---
I'm totally smitten with the Materie, but a web search turns up zilch. Where on earth did you find it?
Marion