Finished one started another

I have finished the basketweave scarf and have now started working on the first project where I will be doing cableing. I am including pictures of the start of the scarf as it looks sharp if I do say so myself since I am using a self stripping yarn from Encore. It is the Encore Colorspun from Plymouth Yarn in color 7518.

I got the yarn from the LYS located about 45 min from me. It is the Woolgathering shop that I have mentioned before in my posts. Barb the owner is a wonderful lady who has been so helpful in my quest to learn to knit. She and my wife Grace (who has her own blog BTW) have been very helpful in getting me going with knitting.

I must confess that I rather like knitting now that I have a project or two under my belt so to speak.

Any how here are the pictures for you to see.

Latest update

Well here is an update since I have not posted in a while. I have found a great gaming web site where you can create an Avatar like the one pictured on my site. I also have been working on a scarf as a charity project.

I am including a picture of the scarf part way done. This is not how the scarf looks at this point in time because I am almost done since I am thinking about a 60" scarf and I am at about 52" in length. The yarn is from Caron and is their Simply Soft Shadows yarn in the Pearl Frost color. which is working up wonderfully and will make a nice warm scarf for someone who needs one.

Also here is a closeup of the pattern that shows the "basketweave" style of the scarf. It is done with 40 stitches Cast on and then doing four rows of starting with Knit four and then purl four alternating ending with the opposite stitch I started with. Once the four rows were done I switched and started with purl four then knit four across.

I am amazed that when I am working on the scarf while on break at work people ask "When are you making mine?" Guess I could make some extra money right?? Nah then it would not be "fun" to do anymore. Besides not everyone likes the things I do!!