Exactly a year and a half after I started knitting a scarf, I bound off the last stitch. Why did it take so long, you ask? Well… Ehm, I forgot about it? It was in a bag in a box and I didn’t remember it existed until I did some clearing up and found it again. This is not the first time that has happened. I may be one of those people who start too many projects and don’t always remember to finish them.
However, once I retrieved the project, I set out to discover what it was. I did remember that it was a scarf, but had no idea how the pattern was knit. Luckily, past me did record the start of the project in Ravelry (14 June, 2020) and the pattern. Turns out that it was Tentaculum by WOLLWERK Simone Eich. It’s garter stitch with holes on the inside edge and decreases along the outside edge. There is some variation in the hole size in my project. It seems like I didn’t like the hole size at some point and made them smaller. However, I didn’t note this in the project and therefore didn’t remember when I picked the project back up again.
As the yarn is self-striping, I got very motivated to ‘finish’ colours and therefore sometimes knit too much. I really should try to limit my knitting as I’m very prone to arm injury. It was good that it was easy to pick up which part of the pattern I was on and detailed notes were not necessary. It’s quite soft and fluffy, which made it nearly impossible to take stitches back out again. They could sometimes almost stick together. I’m happy with the end result, the colours are nice and vibrant and I think it will probably be good to wear. It’s not been outside yet (mainly because I’m never outside either) and I’ve gifted it to someone else.
