Almost Never Infinity Scarf

This is my almost never infinity scarf.  I started this almost 3 years ago.  It is amazing to think that I was working for a different employer, my youngest son (2-years-old now) had not been born then, and the friend that I was making it for has moved from NYC to Virginia.  It is still cold enough in Virginia for this guy, don't you think?

It has sat in a canvas bag, in my craft closet, almost completed for over 2 years.

With this project, I had decided to make a true infinity scarf.  Since I collect patterns and images of knits that I like, I started scouring through them, and found this scarf from a knitting pattern calendar I was given circa 2006.  As is my  M.O. with patterns, I modified this sucker. Who wants to follow the pattern exactly anyway?  Am I right?  Well, sometimes I'm in over my head.

To begin, I cast on and knit several rows in the pattern with a different colored yarn to start, and then knit with the lovely cream colored yarn (again my favorite Lana Grossa's Bingo 100% Merino Wool) that I used for the whole of the scarf.  I had read up on how you could use a yarn needle to knit the unfinished edges together in order to create a true infinity scarf.  It appeared easy, peasy, right?  I did not realize that it would be more difficult than it looked (for me anyway). 

So, after many unsuccessful attempts to stitch the 2 unfinished ends together, this beauty sat almost finished in my craft closet for 2 whole years.  When I started my Crocheted Scarf/Necklace projects, I decided that finishing her up was something I was going to do, even if I was not successful with knitting together part.  I was prepared to sew her together, with my sewing machine, if necessary, but she was coming out of the dark.

I gave the yarn needle approach one more try, and angles singing, I got it!

When I was finished 'sewing' both sides together, I turned to the wrong side to removed the cast on yarn (the blue), praying all the while that I had really gotten all the stitches correctly, and wasn't about to ruin the entire thing.

She is beautiful, if I do say so myself!  And headed for her new home in NOVA.  Take good care of her MK and enjoy.

 

And here I am giving her a photo op test drive. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Kelley