Scarves, Scarves, Scarves...

This is a title you will rarely see on my blog, because, as I've said before, how many scarves does a girl need?

Apparently, three. This one was a recent birthday gift from my friend Jen, who just started her own, very cute blog, Postcards from Cleveland:

How did that librarian find her way into my bathroom?*

You may remember Jen's work from earlier posts of mine, notably, Postcard from Cleveland. It's a cute name, isn't it? I taught Jen to knit many years ago, and she has been churning out beautiful knitted objects from the start. This is the first that I've seen of her lace, however, and it's lovely. It's the perfect little scarflette for around my office, where the temperature seems to be set to "deep freeze". I wear it daily. Think it's strange that the knitted object in my wardrobe that gets the most play is not made by me? Not really. Knitting is like cooking - I love doing it and think my own is superb, but there's really nothing like a taste of someone else's. The second most worn FO in my wardrobe are my friend Mary's "freshly baked" socks.**

BTW, Jen's scarf is knit with less than a skein of Rowan kidsilk haze, pattern from Joelle Hoverson's Last Minute Knitted Gifts - since I know someone will ask!

Scarf number two, also from Last Minute Knitted Gifts is my own recently completed Chevron Scarf. [click here for pattern notes]. The pictures Moxie took of me modeling in LA didn't really do it justice - the sun was just too bright and beautiful that day. Here's a better shot of the scarf, in the style that I'd actually wear it:

And here it is in its natural habitat, in the park with Caia:

Alright, so you can't actually see the scarf in the Caia shot, but Caia sure is cute, right?

And, of course, I'm still wearing my old standby, the original cabled scarf, made so many years ago.

*And does anyone have any idea how to stack two small pictures next to one larger on in Movable Type? This was the closest I could get!

**Second only because I don't take them to work. I have "home" and "away" socks - the special ones are used for sessions in my knitting chair at home.