Jon's Knit Blog

Progress is Relative

So I went to Washington, DC on Wednesday and came back this morning. I spent some time working on the infamous Seed Stitch Scarf. Now, as you know, I've been working on SSS for just about, well, forever. It's Colinette Prism, in Cardinal, on US10.5 needles (Brittany rosewood), in seed stitch. Seed stitch, as you may well recall, has a very, very tight row gauge, so this scarf grows at an extraordinarily slow rate. But I have good news: I started with three skeins of yarn, and on the train (Yes! I knit the entire trip from Penn Station to Washington!) Wednesday, I used up the last of one of the skeins! So now, I'm just knitting between two skeins.

And the scarf is getting long! I was very excited about its length, to tell you the truth. Then, just to make sure that I wasn't getting too happy too quickly, I laid it out on my hotel room bed to compare to the scarf I had worn to DC. Now, the scarf I had worn on the trip is a lovely woolen felt scarf that my mother bought me in Scotland. The only problem with this scarf is that, even with its fringe, I think it's about 18 inches too short. Guess what? It's about a foot longer than SSS.

So I guess it's back to the needles for this little project. Who knew that scarves were so freaking LONG?!?!