A couple of days ago, a rather momentous thing occurred in my life.

I finished knitting my first scarf.

YES that is a VERY momentous thing for me!!  I have been working on said scarf for nearly a year – it is the very first thing I have ever completed knitting.  I had another scarf that I was working on, but I decided it sucked and ripped it apart in a fit of pissiness one night many months ago.

Here is the finished scarf:

I bet you’re all wondering why it took me almost a YEAR to finish this scarf.  It has no embellishments, no fancy stitch work… there is no good reason at all for it to have taken me so long.  And you’re right.  It shouldn’t have taken so long.  At one point I became absolutely convinced this scarf was eating all the yarn I knit into it… I now concede that was probably not the case.  Here is the real reason excuse: I have also been working on a blanket.  SINCE FEBRUARY.  It’s still not done.

It’s so not done, in fact, that I had to lay all the strips out on my bed just so you can tell it’s supposed to be a blanket.  See, what happened was that I found this really nice yarn online, and it just so happened that one of the recommended patterns for that yarn was this blanket.  You knit the blanket in strips and then sew it together with a mattress stitch.  I’ll be honest… I have no idea, to this day, what mattress stitch is.  I have a fantastic book that I am quite confident will tell me how to do it if I ever finish knitting these strips – I learned most of what I know about knitting from this book.  The rest I learned from Tiffany, who is a much more accomplished knitter than I am.

The thing no one tells you about buying yarn online is that it’s really difficult to see how thick it really is. What I didn’t realize when I bought this stuff was that I would be knitting a whole blanket out of yarn that is thinner than a cell phone charger cord. That’s important information to have when you’re knitting. And it’s BAD NEWS when you’re knitting an entire blanket.  Hence the blanket not being finished yet.  Hence the scarf taking me a year to complete (well, that and the yarn-eating problem).

I will leave you with a couple more images of the incomplete blanket.  It’s taking forever, but I think it’s going to be really nice once it’s done.

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