Radikale Venstre scarf done

Today I finished the Radikale Venstre scarf and the pattern for it. About time, since the election campaign was kickstarted last Wednesday. The scarf shows the new colours of the Radikale Venstre political party - nice colours, if you ask me. Modeling the scarf is my dear boyfriend, who also happens to be the younger brother of the leader of the Radikale Venstre, Margrethe.

It's knitted in Arwetta. I hope the pattern will be available somewhere sometime in the future - I don't know then, I think they have enough to do these days.

(On my monitor it looks like Peter's eyes are not looking in the same direction when I see the small photo... hmmmm... well, they are! :))

Look what the postman brought me today!

That's right - I bough new yarn. Not that I needed it, but sometimes it's too hard to resist - for example when I managed to buy this deep pinkish-red silk-cashmere laceweight yarn at Posh Yarn. If you could only feel how lovely it is, you would understand! It's 55% silk and 45% cashmere - and its even nicer than the 100% cashmere I have previously bought at Posh Yarn, probably due to the smoothness of the silk. I can't wait to wear it. Uhmmmmm!

The purple-blue mulberry silk is for a project from Marianne Isagers upcoming book, and the purple-blue (cheap) Arwetta is for a pair of socks.

420 g added to my stash. My amount-allowed-to-buy was at 550 g - I stayed below the limit :)

And now, look at this!


It's immensely cute, isn't it?! I'll make another one and bring it with me on Wednesday...

Edit (16-10-07): The second one is now finished. 10 g stash reduction.

I finished the gorgeous Cherry scarf!

- but I will never become a photographer! I tried to take photos of myself wearing this scarf that can be worn in so many ways - it just didn't work out! Maybe because I didn't have the patience to do so due to my one-sided Streptococcus infection (or: my throat hurts terrible, but only in one side) - so this is what you get:

If you want to see what this scarf can really do, look here and here and here and here. The thing about this scarf is, that all the bands (which are red on one side and pink on the other (alternating) in my version are meant for slipping the other end of the scarf through, just like the baby scarves - this one is just oversize. I adore it!

It is knitted in black Tvinni (or rather, the same yarn made at the same spinning mill, but with a different label), and leftovers of red Tvinni Alpaca and pink Drops Alpaca. I used 2 strands of the black yarn and the clever centre stitch that Anne invented.

It is 144g of stash used.

I have already worn it for 2 days now - highly recommendable! :)