Halfway done with the step ribbed stole! I still love it… and it’s working out great colorwise isn’t it? Unblocked, it’s 30 inches long and about a foot wide. I still have tons left… I don’t think I even hit 50% usage on the yarn yet… we’ll see. I might make it longer, but I plan to single crochet around the whole thing and then reverse single crochet to finish it off nicely, so…. will have to weigh the yarn and calculate accordingly.
It’s hard to believe this thing will have the same number of stitches as a sweater! And that it has more stitches already than the wavy scarf. Why did I even calculate this? I don’t know. Because wavy was my first real scarf… and I knew I could do 1848 stitches in one day, back when I knitted it. Years ago(!). And that wavy had 10 repeats. This wrap, on the other hand, requires 1584 to do two inches. And on days when I really can sit for more than ten minutes at a time, I knit roughly 5-6000 stitches.
And I’m a total geek for stitches, I guess. Marvel marvel! Hopefully soon, very soon now, it’ll be done and worn with my wool coat. Just in time for two feet of snow, I’m sure.
