So, a change of plan on the knitting. All was going well, but slowly, and by the time I’d got 12cm into my scarf I realised that it was actually far too wide to be of any comfortable use. This thing would keep a whale warm and need some serious lengthwise folding to fit under a coat.

So I thought I’d narrow it off. I double-knitted a couple of stitches together at the end of each row until I’d reduced it from 58 stitches wide to just 35. Much, much better. A better size and quicker to knit.

I kidded myself – for a day at least – that when I got to the end I’d flare it out again by the same amount and do another 12cm of the wider design. I knitted it up to 30cm, then looked at it again.

It looks terrible.

Who, really, would wear a scarf that looks like that? Not me, that’s for sure. So tough though the decision was I’ve slipped it off the needles and pulled it all apart, re-wrapping the yarn back onto the ball, and started again.

I’ve cast on 35 stitches and am now speeding away. It’s much better at this width: faster to knit, less cumbersome, more fulfilling and more likely to be comfortable to wear when it’s finished.

Scarf 2.0 is looking good so far.

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