When I was in Pittsburgh last summer, I stopped in at Yarn Bits and Bobs, a shop near my mom's house. I stumbled into the middle of a Yarn Crawl (think "shop hop" for quilters). There was a party atmosphere and a guest hand-dyer with her wares. It was so much fun!
While there, I bought a cake of Whirl cotton in black and gold, Pittsburgh's sports teams' colors.
I knew I was going to make a scarf to dress up a plain black top. My go-to scarf pattern is
Hitchhiker but I branched out this time and made a
Samadhi scarf, a sister pattern to my beloved Hitchhiker. The pattern is adjustable, so I made it extra large until my yarn was all gone.
This scarf has a fun ruffle edge on two sides:
I knit this at my sister's house, in hotel rooms, on vacation, on a 4-day drive to/from South Carolina, and cast off (i-cord cast off, yuck) as soon as I got home from vacation, just in time for football season!
It was fun watching the colors fade from gold to yellow to white to gray to black.
The scarf is 60% cotton so it won't irritate my neck. And it's extra big and drapey.
This was my first finish for September!
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