New Scarf with Malabrigo

Once again in my favorite type stitch…this time dc then sc in an even number of stitches, always starting the row with a sc. I love the texture and coloration

This is made with Malabrigo Rios in the Cielo & Tierra colorway (meaning Heaven and Earth or Sky and Earth).

My kitchen is coming along! He should be finished installing tomorrow, and then the many who installs the granite takes over. That should be finished late next week.

The dogs were enjoying the big room (and their cookies) until the furniture came. Below is the living room and the door to my bedroom (which you are looking out in the photo above).

The new flooring shows up nicely in this photo. It is all covered up now in rugs and furniture. It's a mess! I think it will take me a good year to make it out from underneath this mess. So much for paying Bekin's to unpack everything. Hah! Boxes everywhere!

There are two bedrooms upstairs. The stairway and the bedrooms are all carpeted in a lovely grey sculptured pattern in squares. 

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I need to dig through all my yarn and boxes to find a dark blue yarn to make my niece a scarf. She and her hubby put me up for over a month while waiting for my house to be ready. It isn't "ready" but I could not stand waiting any longer so moved in while construction was going on. It was supposed to be finished already but they didn't show up for about 8 to 10 days worth so it drug on. Nice job, but they could have done better had my furniture not been in the way - which I keep warning them about.

I think it will all be said and done by the 18th or so of the month. I have blinds coming in, and a few follow-up projects on the list. It will all take time.

 

What's YOUR favorite crochet stitch for a scarf??

STITCH?  WIDTH?  YARN?  LENGTH?  COWL?  INFINITY?

 SCARVES 

I have made a few…some pretty, some not so pretty. I'm never sure exactly how wide to make a scarf. What is your favorite width? A particular stitch?

Sometimes my "favorite" stitch comes out looking different if I change yarns or change the stitch a little….like using a sc/dc combo, or a ss/trb combo.

Tunisian? I like it as long as I use a stitch that won't make it curl and it will look good on either side.

I forgot off hand what they call the stitch I like..sc/dc or ss/dc or ss/trb. They are all the same but different!

I did make a scarf for myself, although I found it a big too wide. I did like the stitch, however. It is treble crochet crosses, with sc in-between.

Of course, there is the Rick Rack Stitch that I enjoyed for awhile. I think it made a better looking blanket, though. Fun to do.

So, I think 4 to 5 inches is plenty for width. My grandniece seems to love those really wide long scarves. Tried twice to make her one, but never could get the hang of it, and it takes so much yarn. I did buy some in her school colors, but with my moving so much I'm not sure where it is. She'll graduate before I get around to it now!

??    A thought    ??

One other thing…I have thought about making a scarf with a short narrow length that would go behind my neck (I'd have to situate it just perfectly when putting it on) so I don't have all that bulk back there. Just one area would probably be enough…I like infinity scarves which is why it feels like too much fabric. If it is too long then I don't get the warmth around my neck and chest area. If it is too short I feel like I am choking.

HOW  ABOUT  YOU?

In the House!

 

Bag full of tricks! 

Finally pulled out of the back of my car. All my hooks, needles, etc., etc., etc.! Tomorrow the yarn arrives and one must be ready for such an auspicious occasion!!!!

House renewed!

Upstairs bedroom. The other is a twin. Closet is behind me. The two upstairs bedrooms are larger than the master. However, the master IS downstairs! LOL! Any guest will have to change their own sheets if I'm not up to walking up the stairs, below. I'm on the first landing looking up toward the bathroom, and the bedrooms are to the right and left of the top landing.

Tommy Socks below enjoying his new flooring!

This is the living room looking at it from the foyer, or entry. The dining area is to the left. That door to the right is my bedroom. The flooring is beautiful if I do say so myself, and I do. The baseboards have already been put in, as well as several doors.

My bedroom…moved the bed to the wall on the right of the bed (inside the door to the right). It's a full (traded up from a twin!) and gives me more room to have dog beds in the bedroom. It's still a tight squeeze.

No real crocheting going on. I have hooks and needles, but no yarn! Tomorrow the furniture and all that yarn will be delivered!!! Yay! The crochet room will also be the cat room, but it won't be where I do my crocheting. Just where I keep the yarn in the bins…cat trees, a twin bed and one chair. Plus a book case. I plan on doing my crocheting downstairs. Less mess for any visitors to see. 

This and That…

Coco in jail…like most inmates, she tore up her bed!  This is the second time. It happens when I visit her and then leave, and that night she rips up her bedding. At least she goes in the place in back to sleep. The other two don’t. Riley tore up his bedding a day or so later, but the blankets are still “alive”.  

I miss my crochet. All in storage in Austin still. I have asked that my furniture be shipped, finally, and the delivery window is from the 17th to the 25th. Will be so glad to be in my home.

Tommy Socks gets out of his cage some during the day. He sure hates to go back in. The vinyl has been put in his room and it is painted, so he can get out more. I plan on putting a door lock on his room so people don’t accidentally open it and let him out. His hair was shaved when he had to go to emergency when he had too much insulin. Poor soul.

It’s snowing now. Has been all morning. The snow is not exactly staying on the ground…melting on the roads and sidewalks, but the grass and ground is looking whiter. Not WHITE. They keep saying it is “raining” but it is still snowing here. I have to drive north to my house to pick up the vests for the dogs and then drive them to where the dogs are housed in the hills east of there. Ugh.

My babes in the yard of the kennel. Coco, Riley, and Ginger.  Riley is doing so much better. He had a dual infection…bacteria and yeast. He has even been taking off a few pounds and look’s svelte!

Here is hoping I will be able to move in the house late next week with a bed and the dogs! I have some clothes, of course, and a coffee maker. Not liking the Folgers Colombian coffee any more. I think they are putting the Classic in half the pods. Sometimes it tastes good, sometimes it doesn’t.

Miss my yarn!!!