Portrait of a criminal

I finished Grandma Twombly's Scarf this afternoon, gave it a quick bath in cool water, rolled it up in a towel for a few minutes, and pinned it out to dry. I kept an eye on it for a while, because I was watching the news anyway, but then I had to go cook dinner. And eat dinner, and wash up the dishes. And then I grabbed the camera, intending to get an Action Blocking Shot of the scarf, but what did I find?

My nice new scarf, bunched up in the middle, straining at its blocking pins, with four big snarly snags in it and Fred crouched over it, trying desperately to look innocent.

I hollered that he was the worst creature ever. I yelled that this is why I can't have nice things. (He was gone by the word "creature," but it made me feel better to keep yelling.)

I unpinned it and checked closely: two of the snags were pretty bad, but the other two were smallish and I repaired them with just a couple of well-placed tugs. The two bad ones are mostly fixed, but later tonight I'll have to sit down with a cup of tea and a double-pointed needle and really have a go at them. Meanwhile, it looks lovely, as I was able to hide the snags behind Mr. Goomba's head.


Grandma Twombly's Barely-Survived Scarf was knit with two balls of Colonial Fiber Arts merino sock yarn, on 4.5mm needles. Pattern is from the March/April 2010 issue of Piecework Magazine.

As for Fred, I've forgiven him already. It's hard to be mad at that face.

Wanna see Mr. Goomba again?


I also finished Baktus, on Saturday, I think. This was knit with two skeins of Kollage Corntastic in Tiger's Eye. According to the label, the yarn is 100% corn...I don't know which part of the corn, though. El Fuego is convinced it must be the cornsilk, but I haven't really looked into it. I only know that I really enjoyed knitting with it, and will be on the lookout for more! 4.25mm needles for this, by the way.