Thank goodness the FAA lets you take knitting needles on the plane. It keeps me busy and sane (and mostly helps to make me think that I'm not wasting all this time staring at the little tv screen in front of me). I had plenty of flights (and a couple train rides) to knit on. Two from the Climb4LIfe trip to Salt Lake, and eight from the JBoss trip to Europe.

I got some gorgeous yarn from the knittinghelp.com Great Yarn Swap. Its called Manos Del Uruguay, its the Space-Dyed Wool Yarn, color 113 "Wildflowers". I got two skeins of this lovely varigated yarn. The guage of the yarn varies throughout the skein. It wasn't enough to make a top out of, but I thought it would be great for a scarf. And I think I found an ideal pattern for it.

Stacey at Sheep in the City had the pattern listed online. She originally got it from a yarn shop in San Francisco called ImagiKnit. I think I'll have to check them out next time I'm on that side of the country. The pattern is actually pretty simple and goes quickly after you get used to the stitches.

I'd consider this an advanced beginner project. You need to be able to read a basic pattern (its just two rows repeated throughout the pattern). The two main stitches you need to do are: p2tog (purl two stitches together) and psso (pass the slip stitch over the last knit stitch).

• the size
• Finished piece measures ~62" long x ~5" wide
• the materials
• 2 skeins of Manos del Uruguay spaced dyed yarn - color 113 "Wildflowers"
• 1 pair of size 11 needles
• the pattern
• Listed here at SheepInTheCity

The finished Manos Del Uruguay scarf

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Posted by Jessica on October 4, 2006 12:00:07 PM EDT #