As you can see, I'm done. Finished. Finito. Tassels and all. Only now Master Four wants one to be "just like Daddy". Oh, and once Master Nine heard his brother was getting a kid sized one, he wanted one too. No rest for the wicked! Think I might give myself a little rest, before embarking on a double scarf quest!

All over bar the shouting now. I've finished the knitting, but as you can see, I have a lot of ends yet to weave in, and the tassels aren't done yet either. But, it's full length and my DP loves it. He's taken to wearing it around the house (and once to the library) despite it's unfinished state, because we've had a recent cold snap, and "It's so cosy and warm". I'm just grateful he really is going to use it, even if it does mean I have to sneak it off him and work on it while he is sleeping.

Getting down to the nitty gritty end now. With 882 rows done, there is only 158 left to go, meaning if I do just 12 rows a day, I'll be done by the 21st! (remembering that these posts are written a week in advance, in case I got sick or busy or something)

So, dragging my feet a little this week, and it took a real effort of will to get myself caught up to the end of the green, where I wanted to be this week. Three quarters done - it's a nice feeling!

Still plugging along. The massive heat and being sick has put a brake on my speed, but I'm still on track to my goal! Still need to hit around 90 rows a week, which puts me at 13 a day, so not a terrible set back. I've had to start rolling the end of the scarf I'm not working on, so I can cart it around easier, and keep it on my lap still. Whatever works hey?

I made it to the halfway mark! (known to The Scarf knitters as "the fold" due to the folded icon of the scarf in the original pattern)
This epic push means I can make it to my goal of being finished by the 21st of April by doing just over 12 rows a day - it'll be nice to have a little less pressure!

I got all the way to 365 rows this week, meaning I still need to do 14 rows a day to keep up. But it's adding up. And look, I found a handy ticker showing how far I've come!

Managed to sneak in an extra 30 rows this week, on top of my 13 daily, bringing me up to 250. That brings my daily required rows down to 12 and a half, only I'll need to be done before the 28th really, so I have time to tassel. So if I give myself the final week to weave in ends and add tassels, I'm actually at 14 rows a day. *le sigh* Better get back to it then!

Still on track.
Been getting my 13 rows a day in, so I'm up to row 129. Not much has changed from last week really, not ahead or behind, so I'll give a progress picture and leave it at that.

Here's what I've done so far:



I've submitted this scarf as a dissertation for Nerd Wars, that nutty fiber arts game I play in the forums on Ravelry. A dissertation is a big project that takes place over all three months of a tournament, not just completed in one of the month long rounds. I figured if I was going to do such a massive project on top of my regular projects I may as well try and get some points for it, lol.

The pattern I'm using has 1040 rows. There are 11 weeks from today until dissertations need to be finished, for full points. (If I don't get it done in time for Nerd Wars, I still have until June before I need to give it to DP) I've done 35 rows so far. So that's 1005 rows, plus weaving in ends and tassels, left to finish. This week was only a partial week of knitting, as I set up my blogging posts for scheduling, so I only had 4 days, plus other projects to work on it. Seems like just over 91 rows a week isn't too much of a stretch then - I'll see how I'm going with the math on that next week!

What have I done? I've gone and promised my other half a Tom Baker Doctor Who season 12 scarf, that's what I've done. Our tenth anniversary is coming up, and that's a good as reason as any to do craziness with yarn, so here goes. I figured I may as well blog about it, because if I'm accountable for my progress to all of you followers, like I was with the tetris blanket, there's a better chance I'll keep it up, and actually finish this thing on time.

 For those unfamiliar with this monstrosity parading as a scarf, here's a photo:

  

The colours are a little faded, being that it's an old photo, and my colours aren't perfect, I'll admit, but I did the best I could.

Here's my yarn. I have changed the purple out to one a little less red though, since that picture. - now... best I get to it!

Ok, so I'm in a somewhat silly mood, butchering obscure Simpsons references that no one remembered in the first place anyway. This was supposed to be a scarf, but I don't "do" handwashing, so I thought a cowl with no draping ends would be easier to avoid washing :D It's a free pattern on Ravelry but basically, it's knit two rows, purl one, repeat until you are sick of it.

So, for my first ever knitting project, I sure picked a doozy. 80" of garter stitch. Admittedly on 12mm needles, but it still seemed to take forever. I'm thoroughly in love with garter stitch though.


It's just a long rectangle, with either end seamed to make sleeves - a scarf with sleeve, but surprisingly versatile. Not sure you'd need the free pattern from the Lion Brand website, but they do have a few better photos on how to wear it than I do.