{"id":77,"date":"2007-05-26T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T18:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=77"},"modified":"2015-08-06T18:33:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:33:46","slug":"rippling-waters-scarf-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2007\/05\/26\/rippling-waters-scarf-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Rippling Waters Scarf (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"RipplingWatersScarf\"<\/span><\/a><\/td>\nPattern:<\/span>\u00a0 Fiddlesticks Knitting — Rippling Waters Scarf
\nYarn:<\/span>\u00a0 Fiesta La Luz silk (Malibu colourway) and Rowan Cashcotton (Cork)
\nMethod:<\/span>\u00a0 Hand knit
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 May 26, 2007.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The pattern is designed for laceweight merino yarn — very fine.\u00a0 I was looking for something interesting to do with a single skein of the La Luz silk.\u00a0 I chose to use it for the ends, and then found a complementary yarn for the body of the scarf.\u00a0 The challenge was to find something with a similar feel and weight.\u00a0 It was also important to pick a colour that wasn’t going to steal all the attention away from the multicoloured silk ends.\u00a0 The cashcotton (which includes cashmere and angora!) was as soft as the silk, but robust enough for the body of the scarf.<\/p>\n

Then, in knitting, it was clear that the multicoloured La Luz was arguing with itself when knit in garter stitch — as the pattern is.\u00a0\u00a0 So I did the ends in stockinette, to show off the silk.\u00a0 However, recognizing that made the scarf “sided”, I didn’t want to make the whole thing stockinette or else it would be challenging to wrap it (without exposing the “wrong” side).\u00a0 So, the main segment of the scarf is knit in garter stitch.<\/p>\n

To be fair — at its finished size (some 68″ long, 15″ wide), it is more of a stole than a scarf…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Spread<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/td>\n		All stretched out, in its completed glory.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Unblocked\"<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/td>\n		This is a pre-blocking picture, for contrast — see how much the cashcotton opened up?\u00a0 In the top picture, it is much lacier, and you can see the boards of the fence through it.\u00a0 Much tighter here.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Edge<\/a><\/td>\nClose-up of one end of the scarf, stockinette.\u00a0 This is knit orthogonally to the main body of the scarf.\u00a0 I.e., the left side here is the cast-on row, each one of the “points” from left to right represents one repeat of the pattern rows.\u00a0 Then the row edges are picked up to make the first row of the main body.\u00a0 Finally, the last live row of the main body of the scarf is picked up as you knit the second scarf end — one stitch picked up for each pair of rows in the 2nd edge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Main<\/a><\/td>\nDetail of the main body of the scarf — garter stitch.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Pattern:\u00a0 Fiddlesticks Knitting — Rippling Waters Scarf Yarn:\u00a0 Fiesta La Luz silk (Malibu colourway) and Rowan Cashcotton (Cork) Method:\u00a0 Hand knit Completed:\u00a0 May 26, 2007. The pattern is designed for laceweight merino yarn — very fine.\u00a0 I was looking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RipplingWatersScarf-thmb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-1f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}