This scarf was a very very long time in the making. Over a year ago, Tiphanie went to Hawaii and got me two balls of Plymouth royal bamboo in a lovely mix of greens. Gorgeous, soft, silky, shiny, slinky, way good stuff. I first tried to knit it up last May, with uh, possibly less than stellar results.
I tried again several times since then, but you know, I had the whole infunktion thing and my brain was consitutionally incapable of doing lace, even this simple slanted scarf. Tinking, ripping, frogging, lifelines. Nothing worked, and the pile of yarn remained a pile of yarn.
Tiphanie once again to the rescue! I ended up sending the yarn back to her (the irony of that, it hurts) and she knitted up the pile of yarn into the slanted scarf it deserved to be. And then sent the yarn to me… again. But this time, in usable form. Lovely, too. She did such a great job, and the speed in which she made this made me seethe with infunktion-riddled jealousy at the time.
But now it’s mine, finally. My own little piece of Tiphanie’s Hawaii.
