Road Map scarf

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This is Susan Barstein’s SknitsB’s Road Map scarf, shown here in six shades of Blue Sky Alpaca Silk. They looked so perfect all skeined up and ready to go that I almost hated to get started.

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I loved knitting this and think it came out just as I expected. Very sweet and a tad showy. The only thing I forgot? That I don’t much care for scarfs that have a public and a non-public side. I’m not someone to drape a scarf as if it were some sort of stole or vestment. That’s a little more showy then I can pull off. I prefer my scarves wrapped a few times around my neck keeping me toasty warm.

I will get use out of this, though.

The pattern was perfectly written. No mistakes. It’s very easy to keep tooling down the road through stitches that the designer calls “tire treads,” “car bingo,” manholes,” “bumps in the road,” “a road less traveled,” “coastline waves,” “cobblestone roads,” “speed bumps,” and “end of the road.” Not a bit of boring. Well, miles of applied I-cord on the vertical lengths, that was boring.  “Are we there yet…are we there yet?”

Here’s a closer look at some of the sections:

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This is my first tour with Blue Sky Alpaca. It’s incredibly soft and yummy. But I’d have liked it better, for this project, if it was a bit beefier.

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