Rowan Kidsilk Haze beaded scarf!

This is a repost from a different blog, the original post date was July 7, 2006.

It's done! I've bitched and whined about it for the last what... two? three? weeks, I wanted to kill this yarn several times in the beginning as well, but it's done and only a wee bit of the ball remains (and will remain for ages because I refuse to touch it again for a very, very long time).

Anyway...







Rowan Kidsilk Haze (duh), color is Liqueur (god could I use some right now too), beads are a variety of sizes, from 11/0 silver lined ruby colored seed beads to assorted colors/finishes of 8/0 seed beeds (my favorites were the black lined, followed by the pearlescent, though all were ruby/red base) and a handful of approx. 5mm long red glass beads and one little red glass heart bead (these last ones I dug out of a huge container of assorted glass beads I've had for years).

Pattern - CO 30 stitches on US 10's. K 3 rows, then repeat the following until you are sick of the damned thing:

row 1 - K2, *YO, K2TOG* (repeat between * until 2 stitched remain) K2
rows 2 & 3 - K all

Mind you, there are also the beads - I put between 3-4 on each of the row 1 repeats, spaced randomly on the YO's.

When it was long enough for my liking (which happened to be 80 pattern repeats), I did one more knit row, then my bind off. Blocking could have been better, even with the string blocking I still had to pin (using roughly 80-100 pins)... would have taken more had I not used the string, but still my fingers hate me now.

I am glad it's done, I am happy with the end result, but getting there was a royal pain in the ass.