And nobody loses their head in this story!
But then again, the two heroes of our story aren’t exactly look-alikes. I’m a bit of a fan of Charles Dickens.
A few nights ago, I enlisted some help from my two favorite models for a little scarfy photo-shoot. Before I could get them to follow my orders, I had to follow theirs. They wanted a picture of themselves with the little stuffed animals our neighbor from behind us gave them that day – this is a neighbor I don’t usually refer to, because he’s a quiet guy that I don’t see all that much, but like most of my other neighbors, he’s very nice. Oh, and Julie was also showing off the Frog visor she made at school. I think it’s supposed to help scare the bugs away for the summer.
It took a bit of work to set up this first shot. It’s kind of hard to direct children who don’t yet clearly understand the difference between right and left. Plus, as soon as I’d get one of them in the right position, the other one would have moved. But we had a lot of fun getting there.
I love how grown up and fashionable they look
Moving on to the individual details…
This is the Raspberry Rhapsody scarf from the Knitter’s Book of Yarn knit with two skeins of Artyarns Beaded Cashmere.
I can’t remember what size needle I used exactly – I have the memory of a gnat. Maybe a six? Turns out it’s a very nice length for a decorative scarf, and it feels very nice around the neck.
As cute as she is in it, Sophie will not be wearing it on a regular basis. I don’t think I will ever spend so much again on such a small amount of yarn. It’s a very nice scarf, but I am just not the kind of girl used to spending that much money on a scarf.
I really enjoyed this pattern, by the way. It was a bit technically complicated – not a very memorizable stitch pattern, so I was chained to the row-by-row instructions for the whole project. Which was okay because it was a great foil for the easier knitting with the other scarf.
And here comes Julie with scarf number two. That pose is all her own.
This is my own two-ply handspun yarn made from 8 ounces of Mountain Colors Targhee roving. I knit it up in Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s One-Row Handspun scarf, which is really a single-row pattern that is so easy it’s a little silly.
And yet, it makes a very nice reversible non-rolling scarf.
Especially when combined with the slowly, randomly shifting colors of the handspun yarn.
I still have no idea who is going to end up wearing this one, but it’s nice having it in the potential gift-giving pool.
Your daughters are so cute! And so are the scarves!
You have lovely models! The scarves aren’t so bad either!
Beautiful girls and scarves! They are growing up so fast.