The tassels are on. The eight-foot-long Gryffindor scarf is Officially Complete. Proper pictures to come. (Ravelry is down, AUGH!)
A sneak preview:
Because of course the damn cat can’t leave the wool alone, even when it’s all knitted up. What is it with my cats going crazy for wool? (Not yarn, the wool itself. Roman and Maggie once chewed a hole in a pure wool cardigan of mine. Roman was particularly bad, and used to roll and drool all over it.)
Remember, the cat is ginormous. It may be an eight-foot scarf and eight inches wide, but when it’s on HRH it will look like a normal scarf. It will still be impressive, but not as impressive as it is when I unroll it on the floor.
ETA: Ta-da!
And if you know how big HRH is, you know exactly how wide the scarf is:
Mischief managed. That’s one very happy geek man.
Looks really awesome.
That is a beautiful scarf. I’m envious of your ability to knit with wool. :) And also of your ability to stick with something that big! I’m about 1/3 of the way through my scarf, which has lot of yos and such, and I’m bored. How did you do it?
That is fabulous! Congratulations!
Silverlotus: It was long, I’d admit that. It felt like it would never end between blocks eight and thirteen. But I love working with circulars because I don’t have to think, and most of it got done over the two weeks when HRH and the boy were home, so there were movies and games happening in the same room.I can’t do anything except a knit stitch in environments like that yet, so it was perfect: I’d be spending time with them, but getting something done at the same time. Also, HRH was watching it grow and he was getting more and more excited, so that helped motivate me. And finally, I’m working on a hat for someone else with a damnably slippery and splitty yarn and trying to remember to bring the yarn forward or back in order to purl then knit for 1×1 ribbing, a combination that I still can’t reliably do if there’s anything distracting me, so the scarf was my soothing “yes, you can knit” object to calm me down after snarling at the hat!
I’m tempted to contract you for a Slytherin one…
I had no idea Lamont Cranston was a Gryffindor!
Steve: I see I’m not the only one who thought that! LOL!
Just gorgeous. And it looks just a bit like Tom Baker’s Dr. Who scarf, yes?
Schrodinger — why do you eat my comments? Why?
Comment 8 was originally something like: Just lovely! It looks just a bit like Tom Baker’s Dr. Who scarf, yes?
Wow. You’re made of so much awesome I can’t even tell you! Is Ravelry really down? Boo!
Ravelry’s back up; it was a temporary power outage. And hats are so easy on circulars!
Not like a doc Who? scarf not at all n’uff said.
HRH.