Hallelujah! At Least, Sort Of.........
The good news: The grey scarf is done. The bad news: it rolls BADLY. I altered the pattern to include 2 rows of seed stitch on the sides and to eliminate the dreaded tubular cast-on, so for a while I was kicking myself that my version had somehow caused the rolling, but I started doing Elizabeth Zimmermann's sewn bind-off on the maroon one, and it is rolling as well, so it's just the pattern. I'll block them severely, but blocking never stops rolling due to how a pattern is done. But it's too late to do anything about it, so I'll just hope they like tubular scarves. I bought the yarn because it was a silk blend with lovely drape, but I might add a scrap from my washaway stabilizer (which is starch) to minimize the rolling a bit. In other project-going-badly news, the top-stitching is looking pretty messy when it crosses over the wales of the corduroy. I think a second row of top-stitching will even it out, but reinforced stitching wo...