It's Done!!!!
We have scarf! It still needs to be blocked & the yarn tails dealt with, but it is done and............................... 18,986 yards of yarn used this year!!! Whew, that's a lot of yarn! And of course I celebrated by casting on this: which will eventually be a sweater, but most importantly, it's on size 9 needles and it's a bulky weight yarn with 87-yard skeins. Hey, with 2 days left in the year, I have my priorities.... Some close-up shots of the lace pattern: I used a size 5 needle, and using a cable cast on for a little more stability, I cast on 50 stitches with Knitpicks Gossamer laceweight. Then, starting on row one and repeating on every single row, I did (YO, K2tog) across each row. It's a faggoting stitch (every stitch either being a yarn over or two stitches worked together). Since I was essentially "knitting" every row, I didn't add an edging as I didn't think it would curl, but oddly enough, it has a bit of a corkscrew effect. If I...