It's beginning to look a lot like a SCARF!
Yes, I am almost at the end of my ball of yarn. My knitted work is about 42 inches now. When I took the picture below last Thursday morning, it was approximately 30 inches. There were over 200 ridges (one ridge = a pair of knitted rows) and 34 stitches per row. (I started off with 35 but I lost one along the way.)
Unfortunately, this is not even one half the length of what a regular scarf would be. That means aside from learning how to cast on (Lesson 1) and how to do the knit stitch (Lesson 2), I would also have to figure out what to do when I run out of yarn.
All the while I thought that to complete this project, the only other thing I would have to learn was how to cast off. But NOOOO! It seems a new project and learning the purl stitch would have to wait.
So I have to do Lesson 3 (how to change from one yarn to the next) then a whole lot of Lesson 2 (knit! knit! knit!) before I go to Lesson 4 (casting off).
It's a good thing I like the way the colours of my yarn change and that I had gotten two balls of yarn last year -- one for me and another for MyGirl.
MyGirl gladly donated her ball of yarn since she decided to work on a mini-project using some green yarn we had gotten for one of her school projects. (Thanks, MyGirl!)
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This talk of knitting and something else reminded me of seeing Fibonacci scarf patterns before.
Couldn't find that particular one, but here are some others:
http://plus.maths.org/content/knitting-numbers
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2013/2/adventures-in-mathematical-knitting/1
http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mathknit.html
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And this is sort of what I remember, anyhow:
http://anncrafts.blogspot.com/2007/12/fibonacci-scarf.html
As a bonus, knitting in education. Is this how MyGirl learned? :)
http://cf.synergylearning.org/displayarticle.cfm?selectedarticle=373
-- Z
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