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I have until Friday morning to turn this into a full-size scarf:

It’s supposed to be a gift. I doubt that I will make my deadline. The ten-inch needle is in there for scale.

All of the right-side purls, but two, are through the back loop and and all of the wrong-side knits are too. I wanted something that was patterned, but was still bearable on the reverse and the turned stitches clean up the ribs and give the wrong-side interest.

The part that gave me the most grief—and forced a huge amount of frogging—was deciding on the increase. I knit and frogged at least a foot. I couldn’t find an increase that looked even between a purl and a knit and a knit and a purl. I always ended up with one increase of a pair looser than the other, whether YO, reverse YO, M1 or various combinations of knitting or purling front & back. I finally gave up and modified my pattern to place all increases after knit stitches. I used M1’s, btw.

I took this shot a few days ago, probably to illustrate the shoddy construction technique used in building this place.

I don’t remember why I was standing on the kitchen counter-top in the first place.