Kitty blanket

Fanny is very patient with me posing her for knitting shots. She might like this as a blanket--Dave might have to wait for a scarf.

Working with colours

Things I'm not good at ("yet"):

1) Casting on
2) Binding off
3) Fixing mistakes
4) Working in loose ends

I started making a scarf for Dave today, and I'm working on adding a new skill. Dave's scarf will be dark olive green, and I thought I'd do the ends in blue--same weight/brand wool, different colour. I started with the blue. I thought the casting on went ok, but once I got a few rows down and started a row in green, I could see the cast-on row more clearly. It just doesn't look great. The weirdest thing is that both sides look like a purl side. How does that happen? Now that I'm on with the green, the knitting/purling is looking normal. It's just those first 5 rows. I actually don't mind the way it looks, but I doubt that I'll be able to replicate it on the other side of the scarf. So should I unravel the whole thing and start over, or ignore my mistakes and chalk it up to experience? Just in case the recommendation is to unravel, I haven't detached the first colour yet.

Ideas? Suggestions?

Photos:
1) "Knit" side--notice the blue that looks like the purl side.


2) Knit side close-up


3) Purl side--both colours look like purl


4) Purl side close-up

Finished scarf!

As this was truly my first project (the dishcloth was started a week later and finished a bit earlier, as expected), I am very excited that it looks so good! This is made with an alpaca/merino blend wool, a Christmas present (along with my first pair of needles--6.0mm) from Katrina. I'm not very good at binding off yet. I'll have to have someone watch over me for my next project. I ended up with a large loop at the end, which would probably be very appropriate for a pot holder, but not for a scarf.

All in all, I'm very happy!

Hurrah!

I feel so domestic! I baked banana bread today and finished my first knitting project. Not the scarf (work in progress), but a cotton dishcloth. Ooohhh...I know. Very exciting!