Before I left to work yesterday morning, I was looking for a project to bring with me to work on during lunchtime.  I nearly always work on socks, but today I was in the mood for something different.

So I dug all the way to the bottom of my knitting bag, and crammed in there was my Gust Scarf.  The poor thing has been hibernating in the bottom of my knitting back since back in April when I cast it on at a class that Julie taught.

I was relieved to find that the yarn wasn’t broken off or tangled up.  I expected it would have been, because it’s a delicate cashmere and silk blend: Filatura Di Crosa Superior.  Working with it, it almost feels like it is going to break apart in your fingers.  (In reality, though, it’s much stronger than it seems.)

I’d put this scarf aside because at the time, it felt too difficult.  I could only work on it in absolute silence, else risk getting my YOs and K2Togs all messed up.  But working on it this afternoon, I discovered how far I’ve come along as a knitter.  Suddenly it wasn’t difficult anymore.  I made it through almost one entire chart repeat in a little over a half hour.  While that’s still slow by some standards, it was pretty fast for me.

I think that knitting lace on socks has helped me progress quite a lot.  Being a bit thicker and less fuzzy, lace with sock yarns just wasn’t as intimidating as this scarf initially was.  Now that I’ve worked my way through some lace with fingering weight yarns, I feel much more able to tackle this.  Now I can’t wait to finish it!  I wish you all could feel it… it’s so yummy.

I also had the opportunity to pick up some really fun new yarn at the knit shop this weekend.  They’d recently gotten an order from Hemp for Knitting.  The allhemp6LUX caught my eye, as did all the lovely patterns.  I wound up with 4 skeins of the allhemp6LUX in the veridian colorway along with this pattern.

I started knitting it on Saturday afternoon and I cast off late Monday night.  It was a super quick knit!  I washed it Tuesday night and it’s was still a bit damp last night, so I left it to dry.  It should be dry enough tonight so I can weave in my ends and sew on the buttons, and it will be ready!

I’ll let you know how it turns out.  I’m really anxious to see how the hemp feels after washing, and I can’t wait to see how it looks on!