My colourful life

Written by Elisabeth on September 13, 2008 – 18:14 -

A while back a co-worker gave me a bag full of yarn. She had used it to knit a sweater that turned out way too big, so she frogged it, rolled up the yarn and put it away. When I started to knit she remembered this stash and kindly gave it to me.

The first thing about this yarn is that I have no idea why she ever, ever thought it would be a good idea to make a sweater out of it - The colour combinations are slightly mad and also the yarn has different thickness and quality to it that’s quite hard to overlook.

I used some of it to knit arm warmers and a nice winter hat, but in the end this yarn was too strangely coloured for me and I found no use for it. Also the yarn was all schrunchy since it had been frogged which made it difficult to knit nicely.

Then I got sick and I was very bored. And when the ladies at Wisteria Lane stopped being able to draw my entire attention (somewhere around the middle of season two) I needed something to keep me company while watching episode after episode of the made up lives of some housewives in a made up town.

I remembered that I have always wanted a Doctor Who scarf; stripy, broad and way too long. The original scarf is in very muted 70s colours, but I had after all a bag full of unused yarn and time on my hands. So I started to knit. And knit.

Now the scarf is done! I put everything together last night, and even if I Iook less like Tom Baker and more like a deranged home ec teacher I’m pretty pleased with the result. Pictures will be posted as soon as I have washed and dried it.


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