My grandmother’s birthday is coming up on March 17th - St. Patty’s Day - so I picked up some of this:

and have begun to knit this:

Come closer?

Pretty, ne? I think so. I’m one ball down, working on the next, and still unsure if I’m going to make a fairly short scarf with just two balls or tack on my third skein. I think that perhaps she’d find three excessively long, since she’ll likely just be wearing it indoors anyway. If she wears it at all.

I know, I know, you’re thinking: What? It’s a /beautiful/ scarf, and soft, too! Why wouldn’t she wear it? And if she hates scarves/knitted things, why are you knitting them for her? But it’s not like that. I swear. See, the woman is… difficult. She’d love a scarf that I made her. But this is a woman who loved the dishcloth I made her so much that she refused to use it, and just… puts it away for safekeeping. If a dishcloth (and nothing special at that) is too precious to touch, a scarf would be even more so.

Anyway, it’s coming along nicely, and I’m really wanting to keep it for myself, but I need a birthday present, and darnit, this is green. And it’s knitted. Insta-gift.

2 Comments »

1. It’s beautiful! I want to reach through the picture and touch it. :)

   Comment by Courtney — February 24, 2007 @ 6:09 pm

2. It looks yummy. I want to snorgle it.

   Comment by Turtleheart — February 28, 2007 @ 6:02 pm

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