A wanderer returns

All in all I had a good holiday season this year, I've put off taking down my lights but I'll probably get to it this weekend.  Over New Year's I had friends visiting and I'll share more on that another day. But on the last day of 2008, there was one very special arrival...

My traveling scarf:

Can I just say - I LOVE this thing! I'd asked for blues, greens, purples - basically ocean colors - and every single knitter respected my wishes, kept their section of the scarf to a fairly even width, wove in their ends and wow, you should see some of the gorgeous stitch patterns and yarns used!

I still have to go through the little notebook that circulated along with the scarf, and match each knitter's notes with their section.  But along with the notebook, like a good little traveler my scarf brought home postcards and some pretty stitchmarkers for souvenirs also. Way to go scarfie!

I added the ending section to match the one I started with, but I still need to block the whole scarf and add fringe from the bits of extra yarn each knitter supplied at my request.  I'll get to that soon.  But I don't want to wait any longer to show this off.

Don't be fooled by this shot, the length is actually perfect:

 

If I don't want it hanging down, it wraps around nicely to keep my neck and shoulders warm:

I can even duck my face down inside to keep my poor little nose warm:

And obviously the warmth and coziness of this scarf is appreciated by other members of the family as well:

(PurrrrrrUrrrrrUrrrrrr.....)

Participating in this Traveling Scarf Project was a very positive experience. Much of the credit for that goes to the other members of the group for their hard work and perseverance, and to our group moderator for keeping us all on track as the months rolled by. I won't do another one right away because I've got too many other things on my plate in the coming months. But I'd definitely do it again sometime in the future and encourage others to give it a try.

Whether you're a knitter or crocheter, beginner, intermediate, or experienced, there's a group for everyone.  Whether you are a smoker or not, have pets or don't, use only vegan yarns or love acrylic, there are others out there too and a potential group waiting. New groups seem to be constantly forming, my group was #9, I think they're up to group #50 by now. So if you're already on Ravelry, check it out! And if you knit, crochet, spin, dye, or do anything with fiber and you're not on Ravelry, well, why not? C'mon in and join the party!