I wanted to knit something for Matthew's girlfriend Maggie's birthday last month. She likes pink. A lot. I had a skein of pink Tilli Tomas Disco Lights in my stash. Presto! Birthday present!
The yarn was lovely to work with, as long as I didn't need to frog. The fine thread onto which the sequins were threaded did not always want to work well with the the silk base yarn. But it felt yummy in my hands while knitting, and happily I did not ever have to frog, only to tink back a few stitches occasionally.
Here it is after knitting but before blocking:
(The spooky framing effect is due to the automatic shutter cover on my camera not being happy with me after I dropped it. On concrete. Wah.)
I pinned and pinned and pinned. It fit onto my ironing board -- the blocking place of choice for a scarf in my house -- but only just barely:
The pattern is another of the faggoting variations in Barbara Walker #1:* K2, yo, k2tog,* repeat between *; end k2, except that I changed all the knits to purls because it was somehow easier to do it that way. Easy peasy.
I mailed it off to her a mere week after her b'day, but she was nice enough not to give me hard time about the tardiness. After all, her birthday was the day I broke my ankle. Happy birthday, Maggie!
