Hey look, I finished something!
I've been a little obsessed with doubleface knitting lately, and back in january I started
this monsterproject. +55 hours of knitting later, I finally finished this beauty:
While I like The Hobbit better than The Lord of the Rings (read the former 10+ times, the latter once) I'm deeply fascinated by all things middle-earth and the thought that went into creating all its languages and scripts, so when I found a double-face knitting pattern for the inscription of The One Ring on Ravelry, I had to try it. Of course I used the most expensive yarn I could find (a silk-alpaca blend, you'd be amazed at how soft it feels), so with 5 balls of yarn per colour at ~8€ each, I'm at about 80€ for the entire scarf. Still, having worn it as a stole (way too warm for scarves right now) for a couple times now I feel that it's totally worth it.
Final thoughts: I finished about 7 rows early, because I ran out of the yellow yarn, but have about half a ball of the red yarn left over. That's because the yarns always ran over my left hand in the same formation (red lower, between my fingers & yellow higher, wrapped around my index finger), so they had a different tension. This had the additional welcome effect of making the yellow writing on red background (i.e. the right side) much better legible than the wrong side, so that's something to keep in mind for my next projects.
All in all, I'm absolutely happy with my new scarf, and kind of impressed by myself for sticking with it for so long. I also haven't grown tired of knitting doubleface yet, I'll just try to keep my next project a little smaller for better transportability while working on it ;) (fyi, the scarf measures more than 2m).
