...and one more for my Man!

 After I made a scarf for my baby, wouldn't you know it, but Hubs piped up and said he'd quite like one too.  This is why I don't generally make a lot of things for people, everyone wants to get in on the act!

Actually though, this is the first time in my five years of yarny crafting that he's ever requested anything, so I was happy to oblige him.  Especially as all he wanted was a little scarf.  That'll be nice and easy won't it, I thought.  In theory maybe, but making things for men, that's a whole new area for me.  A strange and unfamiliar area, filled with uncertainty.

What on earth do men like?  What colours are acceptable for a man?  They can be so particular about these things can't they?  It's also hard to find inspiration for nice mens things.  Most things are very plain and dull and drab.  Is that all that men like?

I wanted to do something more interesting but I found it hard to resist the urge to make things cute and pretty.  My man is pretty open minded, he's not the sort to see a pink shirt as a threat to his masculinity for example, but I didn't think he'd be too pleased to have anything that falls into the 'cute' or 'pretty' catagory some how.

In the end, not knowing exactly how to proceed,  I decided to play it quite safe and stuck to a fairly conventional palette of blues.  I happened to have him with me in the shop at the time, so I got approval of that selection on the spot.  Next up was what pattern to use.  I'd imagined stripes in some shape or form and so I experimented a little before settling on mixture of fat and thin rows and a mixture of chains and stitches to break things up a bit.

There was just enough variety of colour to keep me interested in the changes and luckily my new found love of scarves means that it didn't seem to take too long anyway.  I only had 6 balls of yarn, which I though would be plenty but actually made things quite tight.  I kept going until it was pretty much all gone and luckily it's just about the right size.  Blocking helped stretch things out a little too.

So there we have it, my version of a Man Scarf.

I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, I like how the stripes worked out and the blocking makes it look nice and neat and feel drapey and soft.  It hard to get really excited about it because it's not my usual sort of thing but then it's not supposed to appeal to me, it's supposed to appeal to a man.

My man says it does appeal to him though, so I shall be satisfied with that.

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: :  COLOURS  : :

Wendy Merino DK:
1.  Dutch Blue (2358)
2.  Seaspray (2380)
3.  Cadet (2386
4.  Teal (2380)
6.  Smoke (2368)
Schachenmayr SMC Extra Merino:
5.  Beige (3)

: :  PATTERN (OF A SORT)  : :

This isn't a proper pattern, more a few very rough notes but it's fairly simple:
I did three rows of dc's with 1 chain between, then 1 row of 2tr's into each chain space.
That's it, I just repeated that all along the scarf and then did a few rows of the dc's with 1 chain between at either end to finish it off nicely.
(UK terms)

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