Tuesday, April 4, 2023

FO: Fellowship of the Ring Scarf

 


So this is finally done! This is the Fellowship of the Ring Scarf (Ravelry link) by Ben Griffiths. 

This was a really fun knit. It is just the chart, not a full written out pattern, but it's a standard rectangle so it's not difficult to figure out.



The pattern is written for DK weight and double knitting, but it really could be done any weight of yarn and as colourwork rather than double knitting. As I stated in my WIP post about this project, I decided that since it will be going to someone in a quite warm climate, I was making something that would work better as a wall hanging.

This took me technically just over a year, but in that year I was pregnant and that always sucks any knitting mojo away. If I were to calculate actual time worked on this I would say it would take about 2 months around a full time job and 2 kids.

It's interesting looking at the pattern page and comparing my photos to see how the different weight yarn actually stretched the proportions of the image. Mine are all a bit wider looking, though that could also be my gauge, I'm a relatively loose knitter.

And now for some pretty closeups of the various motifs.



I'm really happy with this, though I learned that my purling is very different in gauge than knitting. If you look closely at the background it looks ridged. That's just a gauge thing, and something I'll have to see about working on in the future.

I think my friend will really like this and I'm looking forward to it getting to him.