Finished Red Scarf
Woohoo! My Red Scarf is finished. It's a bit over 5' long and a bit over 8" wide. It's knit with a simple basketweave stitch (with the first stitch on each edge slipped) using Lamb's Pride Worsted. I used 2 skeins and probably 25%-30% of a third to get it to the length I wanted it to be.
Tonight I'm going to find a pretty ribbon and a card to write a little note and provide some care instructions. And as soon as I can I'm going to head to Borders to get a little gift card so that the recipient of my scarf can indulge in a new book, CD, magazines or whatever other little treat they might like to have for themselves. Call me a geek, but when I was in college being able to add to my music collection and indulge in a shiny new magazine was always a little bit of a treat. I actually got a subscription to Time magazine even back then and always looked forward to it as a break from studying.
And I'd still like to encourage everyone out there who is working on a scarf to perservere! There are still two weeks left and I suspect that there are many students who will love your efforts no matter how simple or complicated. If you would like to see more about the project, you can find more information here.
Just in case you missed the address of the Orphan Foundation of America to send the scarves to earlier this week, I thought I'd post it again:
c/o Care Package
Orphan Foundation of America
21351 Gentry Drive, Suite 130
Sterling, Virginia 20166
P.S. to all of you knee sock lovers out there... first of all, thank you for all your words of praise and support. Kind words are always appreciated. Second, after I finish my socks I'll put all my notes together and make them available to everyone.
The scarf looks great, the red is so bold and exciting and the basket weave is much more effective than I imagined it would be!
You are a good person, Theresa. The gift card is over-the-top wonderful.
What a great idea to include a gift card! The red scarf project is such a wonderful thing.
Well done! It's lovely, as is your photo, and just think -- now you can get on to more fun things!
Beautiful scarf. I hadn't thought of a Borders/Barnes&Noble gift card. I got McD's. Perhaps I'll head over to B&N, yours sounds like a better idea...
Your basketweave scarf looks yummy and warm. Just got mine off in the mail earlier this week, as I didn't want to miss the deadline like I did last year :o)
I still like a new CD and shiny new magazine and I'm way past the college days! Your scarf is beautiful and sure your recipient will definitely feel the love. Good on you!