“Everything will turn out alright…”

“…the world is built on that.”

I have talked at length about the amazing month-long holiday I recently took to New Zealand, but please allow me another post that references it.

As I mentioned here, CB and I had been searching in every wool shop we could find for something to float his woollen-scarf boat. Eventually we found this lovely shop:

And found some rather nice wool:

It took two trips to Fjordland House for CB to finally choose, but I think he chose wisely. He went with two colours – Oceanwave and Pukeko Blue – of a merino and brush possum blend. It has a vague halo and is nice and soft. I think it will make a lovely scarf, very warm and fuzzy.

As he’s a boy and he’s boring, CB didn’t want any kind of fancy scarf. He also made it clear that he wanted a scarf, not a cowl. This was one of the reasons we opted for two colours – if I can’t do an eye-catching pattern at least it can have a more interesting colour palate.

He agreed to the Rimu DK Ribbed Scarf (link here) which I think is a good mix of being reasonable plain and yet has a nice texture. CB also wanted a long and wide scarf so hopefully this fits the bill for that as well.

The wool did take a bit of beating flying home:

From this...

...to this!

But I’ve started knitting with it and it’s all going well. I wanted the darker blue at each end of the scarf so I weighed and split the ball. I should have counted lines really but I’m sure doing it by eye will work fair enough. The ribbing is very stretchy (obviously) so I will block it out to ensure the scarf is wide enough. 

Sorry I don’t have another FO to show you, but hopefully it won’t be too long until I can post the scarf shots!


*Quote from Mikhail Bulgakov