i'm calling this project my sideline scarf. as it was knit mainly while sitting on the sidelines as a spectator(mama) at many youth soccer games, practices and tournaments in october... and also because it's super long length lets the rib pattern go on about as long as the lines on the field.
this scarf was 100% improvisation. i happened to have a tremendous ball of cascade ecological wool on hand and after finally completing the previously mentioned gray sweater i was very much looking to start something easy and pattern free for my next project. this wool seemed like it would evolve nicely into a scarf of some sort. maybe for me. maybe for margaret. i just wanted to knit without much thinking. i selected some straight needles, size 10, and cast on 33 stitches. simply keeping to a knit3, purl3 rib... while i waited on the sidelines of margaret's fall practices i knit, while at the early weekend games i knit and at the big fall tournaments in between games and during some of the more nail-biting matches, i knit...
until, towards the chillier end of the season, i ran out of yarn and bound off... yes! three cheers for a super easy wooly creation. completed in time to be happily worn to a few last games and practices.
a nice long chunky wool scarf? perfect sideline attire i think!
