Red Scarf Project

The house is much quieter today. The 'rents have gone home, and Chris is sick on the couch. I have been sewing on my new serger all day - more or less successfully. It took me three hours to figure out how to thread the machine, only succeeding after I broke down and read the manual...

The results of today's sewing efforts will be revealed in a later post, however. Today's picture is of an item recently knit for the Orphan Foundation of America's 2007 Red Scarf Project. These scarves will be part of a Valentine's Day care package for former foster care students who are now in college in the United States. I made one last year too; perhaps this can be my new holiday tradition.

This year's red scarf was knit with a wool and (yikes!) acrylic blend that I picked up in Thailand as emergency yarn. In an attempt to create a unisex scarf, I used a simple moss stitch pattern. The final scarf was around 70 inches long. As an aside, I used my glass needles from Namaste for this project, and they were super smooth. Aside from fears of being turned back by airport security screeners, I really enjoyed these needles. They are very pretty and the scarf was done in less than a week - with frequent Christmas interruptions too.