Not one, but two of them. :)

I finally finished the first Kid Silk Haze Scarf, the dark one, and then decided to do another one.

The second one knitted up quicker than the first, but the pattern isn’t difficult and the lighter yarn helped too.

I have bought enough yarn to do another 3 of these scarfs, although I think I will take a break before I start the next one.

The colours used here are Blackcurrent and Glacier of Rowans Kid Silk Haze.

This yarn was lovely to knit with and really didn’t take long to knit up. It uses 3 x 25g balls per scarf and you just knit until you are nearly at the end of the yarn. The pattern says to finish on a row 15 of the pattern, but with the first scarf I finished on the 7th row of the 31st repeat.

The second scarf is slightly longer. It finished on the 15th row of the 31st repeat. There was still some more yarn left over, maybe enough to get to the 7th row of the 32nd repeat, but I didn’t want to take the chance and have to unravel back to the 15th row.

The worst thing about this yarn is taking back rows because of the fluffy bits. :)

The yarn for the first scarf came as a kit from Rowan, purchased from John Lewis in Aberdeen for £25.

I then bought the second and a further 3 scarfs from GetKnitted.com The yarn costs £7.25 per ball, although you may be able to find it slightly cheaper if you shop around online.

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Although I have knitted baby shawls and blankets that have been quite lacy, this is the first item I have knitted that is not for babys and is lacy.

On one of my rare trips to Aberdeen, I went into John Lewis and bought a scarf kit. The kit included 3 balls of Rowans Kid Silk Haze, a pair of 4mm needles, and a pattern for 3 different garments.

The 3 balls would be enough to knit either a shawl, a shrug or a scarf. I decided to start with the easiest one first. The scarf.

In the picture, I am nearly at the end of the first ball and the scarf already measures about 20″, so by the time I am finished it should be over 60″, which is a good length for a scarf.

My only problem with knitting this scarf, is that I can’t do it while watching tv. The pattern isn’t very hard and is quite easy to remember, but the yarn is so fine that it is easy to drop a stitch, so it needs full concentration.

The scarf is lovely to touch and not itchy at all. The yarn is 70% Super Kid Mobair and 30% silk, so it is lovely and soft and very strong.