I said I was through, through, through with knitting red scarves for a hospital project, cancer or cardiac, I never knew which. I missed last week’s craft group, during which they had their choice of yarn from someone’s stash, but today there still was a huge basket remaining. One of the crafters told me where it was, and said there was so much red yarn we’d never have to buy red again, I could have all I wanted. So I came home with four small skeins of a coral color, and two big, huge skeins of — you guessed it — scarlet red. I love that one-line scarf pattern by Stephanie Pearl McPhee. Every stitch except one is a knit stitch, although one of the knit stitches is in the back of the stitch instead of the front.
I remember the day at the Knitters Guild when someone told me they had a new scarf pattern for me, was I ready to write it down? Yep, pen and paper ready. "Cast on in multiples of four. Knit one, *knit two, knit in back of stitch, purl one*, repeat until last three stitches, knit three". Then she turned her attention to someone else. I waited, pen poised on paper, for the next line of the pattern. I finally had to remind my friend that I was writing down a pattern. "That's it," she said, with finality, and turned back to her conversation with the other knitter.
In disbelief, I cast on. Knit one row. Dubious, I knit another row. And another. It's magic. Makes a lovely scarf with a beautiful pattern, looks far more complicated than it really is.
