Wednesday, November 24, 2010

unfortunately, it doesn't come with potato chips...

...or french onion dip...but it IS *called* a potato chip scarf... (or a curly-wurly scarf) ...and here it is, being worn by the world's least enthusiastic scarf model* :

here's a closer shot, in which you can see the detail and shape better, but without seeing it ON someone, it's hard to see the fun drapy ruffly effect!


i used this pattern, which involves short rows**, but is a much better way*** to knit a potato chip scarf if you have a limited amount of yarn and are not totally sure when it's going to run out. i had 3 balls of very high end italian thick-n-thin called venezia that i snagged for a song when my favorite local yarn store was closing****. it was luscious to knit, and i know the colors will look amazing on my friend lelia, whose birthday present this is. and now of course i am firmly in the grips of yarn lust...and totally longing to cast-on something else! :)


*no, i actually wasn't homicidally angry when this was taken; so no, i don't know why i'm making that face!!! :)

**short rows are really no big deal to do...i'm not sure why they made me weirdly (& needlessly) nervous in advance; additionally, the pattern i used gave me a link to the best explantation of how to "wrap" a stitch when turning your work that i've ever read, making me even more confident with this technique!

***the more common method is to work a verrrrrrrrrrrrrry long horizonal swatch that *DOUBLES* every other row. the finished product looks almost exactly the same...assuming you have unlimited yarn and don't run out, mid-row!

****i still miss you, simply knit, other stores just DO NOT compare!! ♥♥♥

12 comments:

  1. I tried to make one of those once. The long row pattern. On normal straight needles.


    I think sometimes I can still hear the craft gods laughing.

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  2. Grr I hate being featured on my own blog. I shall show it in my homicidal grimace. hehe I love the scarf!!! She's going to love it! I wish I lived in a place where I could wear pretty things like that more than one day a year and not look like a coo-coo bird. Because around these parts people just don't own scarves. We just don't. You go to do something like ice skating per se and we have to go purchase gloves just for the occasion. haha its just like that. Unless you are a snowbird and go back and forth then you might have kept some winter ware. Gorgeous girlie!!

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  3. check you out with your fancy smancy scarf...hey, what's up with the strategically placed camera?

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  4. Love it ... the scarf and your post ... It's freezing here in the UK and our scarves are at least 6ft long just to wrap around!Much easier to buy than knit ... so I admire you ...

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  5. Love it ... the scarf and your post ... It's freezing here in the UK and our scarves are at least 6ft long just to wrap around!Much easier to buy than knit ... so I admire you ...

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  6. I'm not gonna lie, when I saw your photo I was slightly fearful for my life, but then I saw the oh-so-perdy scarf and was like ooOOoooooh ruffly goodness :D

    I may be slightly drunk. But yes, your scarf is lovely and wonderful and you are of course extremely talented and wonderful :D

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  7. ooo, cool scarf, lauren! i wish i could knit. i want to make so many things, haha. pretty color combo! thanks for sharing and hope you and yours have a happy thanksgiving! *hugs* steph :)

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  8. I love the severe look of concentration on the bits of your face not purposefully obscured by the camera ... lovely lovely scarf indeed.

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  9. Loverly scarf. The colors are cheery, which is certainly a requirment when a scarf is necessary. And I love this potato chip ruffle design. I don't knit, but I do crochet. I wonder how long I shall have to search for this pattern..... CUZ I LOVE IT.

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  10. ahhh... short row is tricky... LOOOOOVE the yarn you used. so so pretty! fabulous work, girl!

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  11. Homicidal? Oh, my.... It certainly looks like that yarn did *something* to you! ;)
    And it's TOTALLY fun!

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