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When you think you have gotten it long enough, KEEP GOING, and I mean at the point you think your done you're not even halfway done.
this luxurious lovely great big looking scarf would barely fit a kid. If I don't fold it over my neck (like you would do with a scarf) It hangs down and barely passes my bust-line.
It felt so huge and it took FOREVER but It isn't even half of what it would need to be a scarf.
Still... I had so SO many false starts with that first loom @.@ ( I counted something like 7)
I was just thrilled when I finally got the thing to actually work ( my tip is to weave 3 rows and knit over 2 at a time to keep the dang thing together - something not provided in the instruction manual)
So I didn't bother to notice how long it took and consider how long it would take. By the time I got to what I felt was the end and enough - I just wanted to be done with the thing.
Its super warm! Though it does take up A TON of yarn (so much freaking yarn!)
This notion of a scarf is never long enough was re-iterated by my first hand knit scarf that I completed after 7 grueling days of sleepless nights and driven obsessive daytime knitting sprees.
I made that scarf at least twice the size of this one and it still barely feels long enough to be a scarf.
That is my scarf advice - keep scarfing till your fingers are numb and your eyes bleed and your life is over and the apocalypse is nearing and you would rather die than continue...
Then your about halfway through.
ugh why in the world. I don't know. I have no memory of the reason that this scarf ended up where it did but I have such a strong memory of it just thrown away. Not by me certainly not but by who I gave it to and that is the question really... why... why them why bother.
I mean it's not perfect and its not pretty but it was so very much work and it was cozy and warm and sort of luxurious to the touch because it's double knit on both sides.
Now of course i'd just take out all the fringe entirely then give it a single twist lace it up along the seam and make it into an infinity scarf or leave out the twist and make a cowl. Then use the fringe bits to make borrowers chord or twine.
Imagine it can you? It's like an entire skein of baby blanket yarn I mean one of those BIG skeins that you are supposed to be able to make an entire baby blanket out of... I used the whole damned thing for this scarf. I just wanted to try out a technique and the yarn was given to me or found or something but man this scarf took me MONTHS to make and the family I ended up giving it to just tossed it into the garage to be donated or thrown away I suppose. Never used. And they didn't even try to hide how little they cared for it any time I came over just left it dirty and clearly never used like trash in the "to be donated" pile of their garage. That's my last memory of the thing.
I guess that's the chance you take and the choice you make when you give something over.
I mean I know what kinds of people they are, namely scum. So It should come as no surprise what they did but It does bum me out to know that's what became of this piece.
I see it so clearly cast aside by these horrid people... just sitting there. I should have just grabbed it back from them without a word.
Imagine now. I could have lovingly taken the whole thing apart stitch by stitch and re-used every scrap of that yarn.
Hope it gets donated to Goodwill or something and someone out there truly loves it intensely... or else takes it apart stitch by stitch and finds just enough perfectly useable yarn for their project.
That's the imagined memory that I prefer to give to it. Intensely loved - lovingly repurposed...
Instead of sitting there... cast aside in plain sight in the pretentious garage of the truly righteously ungrateful scum of my blood.
I'm honnestly so glad I am done putting so much effort into keeping up with that wretched lot.
It is sad to look back on this though and think to yourself... aww... this poor mistreated item. I will wish it into a better future somewhere... wherever it may go.