I Finally Finished
something.....
Actually, a scarf.
Pattern: February Lace Scarf by Laura Nixon-Corfield (Ravelry Link)
Yarn: Cascade Venezia Worsted, which is 70% merino wool, 30% silk, in color 167, a deep green.
This was not a particularly original choice. I came into possession of one skein of the Venezia and I simply ran a Ravelry search to determine what other people had done. Someone else had used this yarn for this pattern, which was written for a fingering weight alpaca, and I thought it was pretty. That is one nice thing about scarves, you can probably knit them out of most anything and the results will vary accordingly.
Needless to say, I am very happy with the final result and I will happily wear it. It feels luxuriously soft and silky against the skin, and it is warm but not too warm. There are days when the not too warm part is very important.
I couldn't capture the actual color in either photo, it is somewhere in between, not as blue as it appears draped on the brown chair, but deeper and with more of a silky shine than is apparent in the second photo. It being winter and light being what it is up here in the NE at the moment, especially during yet another snow/ice storm, I can live with these results.
