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9 January 2008
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.
There is too much math in this post, but the wrap is pretty!
The colors are working out really well indeed!
Your stole is just lovely. It’s knitted up beautifully in that yarn.
I count stitches too! (Actually, I count just about everything I come across. LOL.) I’ve just finished some socks that took 23,730 sts for the pair.
So pretty!
I always start calculating out stitch count and projected time to knit projected count myself.
And oooh, pretty!
Oh, nice! No pooling either. What an inspired idea to knit from both skeins.
Um, ok. I don’t actually calculate the number of stitches, but I do wonder sometimes. Great. Now guess what I’m going to start doing?!
It’s going to look great with your coat!
Hm. Very light…warm?
When are you going to get sick of scarves? HAHAHAHA.