The Thing I Didn't Tell You

I released a pattern last week on Ravelry and Love Crafts...scheduled my newsletter to go out and......got distracted, so never told anyone else!

Better late, than never, right?

Presenting...Monkey Tales...

Origin Stories are often amusing tales explaining why the world around us is the way it is. Sometimes how a single feature of an animal came into being is explained differently depending on the region the story is from. One thing all the Origin Stories seem to agree on is that once, monkey had a short, stubby tail. How it became long varies…pulled on by another monkey, hanging upside down in a tree over night to obtain wisdom, a rock placed on it while he tried to run away…but the end result is always the same, a long tail on all the monkeys.

This long scarf starts from a simple tab that morphs into an I-cord edging and uses increases and short rows to pull self striping sock yarn into new directions. The loopy I-cord bind off allows you to weave that long tail through the edging to secure the scarf around your neck and shoulders.

Size: 48 inches long by 10 inches wide at widest point. (122 by 25.5 cm)
Materials: Knit Picks Felici 75% Merino Wool, 25 % Nylon, 218 yards (199
meters)/50 grams (1.76 ounces) 2 Balls, shown in Steamer Trunk.
Smooth waste yarn for provisional cast on, optional removable st marker to designate odd rows.
Size US 4 (3.5mm) needles, or size required to obtain gauge.
1 or 2 additional US 4 (3.5 mm) dpn for working I-cord Edge.
Gauge : 23 sts and 46 rows = 4 inches (10 cm) in garter stitch.(unblocked)

You can get your copy of the pattern here on Ravelry....or here on Love Crafts.

In other news, driving the working kids to their essential jobs at oh-dark-thirty hasn't been quite so dark the last few days and we can see more of the area around us as I am driving.  Two days last week we were able to see the Bison that live in one of our Metro parks taking their morning constitutionals along the roadside. (I really hope that Bison don't jump fences the way that deer do...I do not want to have to add them to my morning "do not hit the......" list.

I've been swatching a lot this week...trying to get some little skimmer socks that actually stay on your feet without adding elastic to them.  So far four attempts have shown me four ways that don't work.  I suspect I am going to have to actually find yarn that has elastic in it already, but the sock yarn I used before that used it was discontinued...do you know of a fingering weight yarn with elastic in it that you could suggest?  Drop me a comment so I can check it out.

~M


P.S.

I went to the supermarket today...I know, high excitement there!...and while I am proud of the store for providing surgical style masks to their employees, I really wish they had given them a training session on how to wear them!  If I was clever enough I would make a Bingo Card for all the wrong ways to wear a mask and see if I can get BINGO next week. (Yes, it does need to cover your mouth and your nose, no wearing it around your neck like a scarf isn't good enough, hanging off one ear as an earring is a bold fashion statement and having it hang out of your pocket is just plain silly!  For those of you that have "dust" mask with the metal tab on them...that goes on your nose, not your chin!  So many wrong ways to wear a mask..keep trying, you'll get the hang of it!) The cashier I had was saying she was ready to go back to our "normal lives"...I smiled and nodded, but deep down I was thinking...for the time being this is our normal.  I wonder what we will remember of it in ten or so years?