From the beginning

I have decided to take my scarf notebook and type it into this blog. I'm backdating all the entries so that they are listed on the day that they were actually written. The day the scarf began was June 5, 2008 if anyone wants to jump back and read about it from the start.

Eris

There is going to be a bit of a change in the scarf. I'm not quite done with the yarn Eilonwy
sent me. However, yesterday my cat, Eris, was killed.


She got out of the house and was killed by some dogs living in a nearby yard.
In her honor all the yarn going into the scarf for the month of January is going to be black or white. I miss her very much.

Christmas update

At last measurement the scarf was 238.875 ft. That is 5.97% of the goal. Work has slowed some now that the scarf is permanently at Drew's house. However I did get a few feet done while watching movies this week. And I managed to get a couple of pictures!
I'm still working with handspun from Eilonwy.

Here we have (if i'm reading her yarn key correctly) is soy silk and merino with a little soy/cashmere blended into it early on. The merino is from a pound of purple and pink roving that I sent her.











I'll take this directly from the key... "ball o' orange based mixed colors. This is an early yarn, recently re-found. It's the same fiber ysed in skeins I sent before, but those were plied with green or orange and this is plied on itself."