Did that bandwagon just run over my foot?

I was inspired by Turtlegirl's awesome scarf and enabled by Blue Moon Fiber's STR in the Scottish Highlands colorway to jump on the Chevron Scarf bandwagon. I however don't own a copy of the wildly popular book that this particular pattern is in so I had to punt. After looking at the hundreds of examples on Ravelry I came up with my own version. I chose to pair the Scottish Highlands with Watermelon Tourmaline

Mine however seems to have come with more pastels than the hank shown on the website. It also has more pale yellow than peach. But overall it is turning out okay, just not quite as striking as I had hoped.

Also a little technique note. I hadn't been slipping the first stitch on the "return" or wrong side row for the first half of the scarf. But then I realized that there was a noticeable difference between that side and the side where I had carried the yarn up to change colors and started to do the slipped stitch. I makes a much nicer selvedge edge. You can see in the photo below where I changed from knitting that first stitch to slipping it. If I hadn't already knit over a yard of scarf I may have frogged it and reknit it with the selvedge stitch, but since this is for personal wear and I know that no one else will ever notice this tiny detail, I left it. Plus it provides a "teachable moment" here for my blog.


My intention that this was going to be my vacation knitting on our trip to the UK in a few weeks. That is why I chose the Scottish Highlands colorway in the first place. I thought it would be appropriate knitting while in the actual Highlands and all that. But I took it along on our Harry-palooza night and got quite a bit done on the train and then while listening to the audiobooks the following few days. I may still take it along and finish it up on our vacation and try to remember to slip a Chibi needle in my luggage somewhere so I can weave in my ends and then model the FO while hiking in the Highlands instead of just knitting on it there.