Litany of Secret Creations, Part 2

Scarves were the focus of my Christmas knitting this year. During the spring of last year my knitting buddy, Julie and I were touring Chicago knitting stores. We wandered into Knitter's Niche late in the afternoon and I discovered EROS -- metallic nifty ladder yarn. The store also had some model scarves made up of the stuff, which I assumed would be hard to make. The pattern I got is the same pattern that Bonnie Marie posted in her BLOG on December 8th.

I made the first one for myself (cursing that ladder yarn the whole time because it is not the easiest stuff to work with and its really tough to fix problems with it), and swore that was it. Until, of course, I got some complements on it. Then I went on to make one for Julie and my monther-in-law. Of course, those drew nice comments, too, so I decided to make them for my sister-in-laws-to-be for Christmas.

I made my brothers wife-to-be this one out of
Trendsetter Binario Colo Rio Red (103) -- I loved it because it was so vibrant and because the ladder edge cords were red instead of black like they are with EROS. I knit it on size 13 needs to make it a little wider than the first ones I did.

I made John's brother's wife one with a more business oriented color palette -- black and silver and a little yellow -- EROS#3246 The colors don't come out quite as distinctly as I would like, but it looks great on a cream colored shirt or with a black jacket.

Now that I've done a number of these scarves in a number of different ladder yarns (Julie's scarf was out of Kitty, and my MIL's scarf was out of Schachenmeyer) and I am starting another using Madil Film, I have to say that I think the best one is Trendsetter Binario -- the colors are luminous and it knits up a little easier than the others. Big warning here -- this stuff requires a lot of attention when you are knitting it so that you don't stich into the ladders iinstead of your loops. But if you have a little patience, these make lovely gifts -- especially for yourself!