Well, almost. I sort of ran out of yarn about halfway through the project. I hate when that happens. This one is called “Irling’s Half Diamond Seaman’s scarf,” and it is in Stahman’s Shawls and Scarves. I’m making it from Cascade 220 – only one side will be from a different dye lot because I bought this yarn about a year ago and just now got around to using it…AND apparently it takes more than one skein to do a scarf. I bought it to make felted clogs with – and it was the color that I only needed one skein for – however, I have since used the other yarn on other projects, so decided to use THIS color for a nice neutral kind of “latte” colored scarf. So, anyway, it gave us an excuse to take a drive over to Sonora to my LYS to see if they had any left. Of course not! But, they ordered some for me, so now I get to go BACK again. See how that works?
While we were there this trip, I picked up some fingering weight yarn to start some selbuvotter mittens with. These will be for a child, so it’s a good thing I ended up buying an acrylic. 
I’m actualy pretty impressed with acrylic these days – although it still feels kind of “crunchy” to me, and I much prefer knitting with wool. But, most of the time when you give young moms things that will shrink – they end up shrunk – so acrylic has its place.
They’re carrying Dream In Color yarn now, along with some alpaca yarn that I swear I’d marry if I could, but we have to keep things on the cheap these days since we also like to eat – so I restrained myself.
This should keep me busy for a while.
Oh! And, the cat ladies were at Starbucks this weekend, so I got to drop off the mice. They were most appreciative, and I was really glad I caught them.
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I love the projects you’ve done, and also enjoyed having you in the store the other day.
Hi, my name is Biene (Angels Camp), and also go to BHY. I hope it’s ok to write. I have been making seamen’s scarves for the last four years for a special group and use 36 sts, 14 ins for both ends and 18 ins for the middle. This is the requested length for the group, but there are umpteen different versions, as you figured out by now. What did you cast on? Weave? Mice? Oh, you are one gutsy lady!!
Do you know Laura McHenry? She had this fab loom in her store in Columbia, don’t know what she did with it when she had to close. Hope to hear from you. Bye.
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