Well, I finally finished Lilin’s scarf yesterday. I made my own version of Paton’s Twister yarn by combining Lion Brand’s thin Chenille with Bernat Boa. I used size 10 needles, so it came out really tight - hopefully it’ll be warm! I used up the Boa yarn, so it’s a little bit shorter than the one I made for her younger sister. Oh, well… I contemplated adding fringe until I realized how much the chenille likes to shed and fall apart and realized that’d be a bad idea.

Here’s the pic:

In other news, I finally got the 12″ circs so I could work on Nakiska last night. The seed stitch edge was kind of annoying to knit - just seemed so fiddly. Learning the M1 stitch was an adventure (and getting thru the loop properly required way too much effort for my liking). Got that sorted out and started the row with the cables… forgot the first cable, went to do the cable and the previous purl stitch just popped right off the needle. tried to fix it, and did it wrong… went to finish the cable and realized I skipped the first one *sigh* decided to tink it and then realized just how much of a problem that popped purl stitch had caused - apparently it laddered down a fair bit. grabbed the crochet hook (which came in handy for the M1s), tried to pick it up, realized it was ‘knitting’ not purling… got super frustrated, gave up for a bit and grabbed the Vogue Reference Guide, which helped a bit (though picking up the stitches was still annoying, as the yarn plys kept splitting on me…). finally got that sorted and am now a few rows further and about to start the next row of actually working the cables. I’m liking the Addi’s - the non-cable rows seem to knit up pretty quick, but I’m still trying to get a handle on the thin-ness of the yarn and needles.

Here’s an in-progress pic:


oh, and I made the stitch markers that are dangling from it. =)