About three years ago, my mom had one of those white fun-fur scarves that were trendy for a hot minute. She loved the thing, and she especially liked to wear it around Christmastime with a red dress. Long story short, she ended up losing it somewhere at a Christmas dance and has been questing to find the “perfect” thing ever since.
Since I have forbidden her to ever buy fun fur again, she bought some beautiful chunky-weight alpaca wool to make herself a new one and crocheted a scarf that is dreamy to wear: it is so soft and cuddly, I’m quite jealous of it. She seems disappointed with it, however, as I think she was looking for something a little more frothy and a little less bulky. Not surprising as bulky scarves don’t have much of a place in California weather (although tell that to my 62 degrees in June today, wtf?)
So as soon as Knitpicks came out with their new line, Aloft, a mohair/silk laceweight that is fluffy and airy, I knew this would be the right yarn for something for her. I was hoping it would be a Mother’s day gift, but I bounced around from pattern to pattern for a while before finally settling on the Traveling Roses Scarf. It’s beautiful, but a beast to knit – I don’t have a lot of experience with laceweight and I can only work about one 44-row repeat before having to put the needles down and work on something else due to eyestrain. I feel like an old lady!
Anyway, I have a feeling this one will take me a while, but here’s hoping she’ll love it.
