There is good and bad today.  First the good, I started the scarf and it rocks.  Check out that stitch definition, that’s why I went through all the trouble of spinning a three ply yarn- for those cables to pop you need a round yarn and to get a round yarn you have to have at least three plies.  The fabric is soft enough that it could be used as pillow, actually it would make a really nice blanket, it would be all warm and soft and snuggly.  I went with the Fair Isle Jazz pattern that I wrote about yesterday and this is almost two repeats of the cable pattern.  I’m having some misgivings though, the scarf is coming out a little wide, which is fine, but I’m worried about running out of yarn.  My plan is to finish this second repeat and then weigh what I’ve knit and weigh the rest of my yarn and try to work out how many more repeats I can do with the yarn I have.  If it won’t be a good length I’ll either have to frog it and think of something else or spin more of the yarn (luckily I have another 8oz of this fiber but I really didn’t want to have to use it).

We started getting sleet and snow last night and it’s continued today.  This is the view out my bedroom window this morning the road is still covered in ice and since the temperature isn’t supposed to get above freezing until Friday this won’t be melting anytime soon.  We’re lucky, south of here they got two to three inches of ice and they have no power.  Our electricity is on, we’re fairly warm but we won’t be leaving the house any time soon, you just can’t get down our road.  I’m guzzling coffee to keep warm and knitting to keep busy and we’ll be fine here.

Here’s a view of the storm last night:

I’ll have another scarf update tomorrow!