Winter Knitting 08/09 - Part 1: Herringbone Scarf!

This is one of the two knitting projects I've been working on this winter. Originally I wanted to do the "Henry" scarf from knitty.com, but I really suck at knitting scarves sideways because I just lose count of all the stitches way too easily. Not to mention the tubular edge thing didn't work out to great when I did a test swatch...

So instead I decided, well I've never done a herringbone texture before, so why not! And my attempt to keep it from curling quite as much involved putting a seed-stitch edge on it, but that doesn't seem to be working as well as I thought. I think I'll just have to try to block the living daylights out of this guy when I'm done...

It's also the first time I've done a scarf using sock yarn... It takes much longer than any other scarf I've done T.T

But enough talk! here's some pictures!


All crumpled up...


Seed stitch border...


The herringbone texture...

It's not visible from the pictures, but the herringbone isn't very even, mainly because it took me awhile to get a hang of the whole knitting through the back loops thing... But I think it'll turn out decent ^.^

YAY!! Yeah, this one is the one I worked on all winter break (3 weeks) and it's not even halfway done yet. I reminds me of the anime "Maria-sama ga Miteru" though because I watched the whole first season of it while knitting this.