Holiday Knitting Part Two -- The One Ring Scarf

​Six weeks late and I finally finished the One Ring Scarf!  It is stunning and I am very pleased with the results and so was my daughter!  This scarf is really amazing.  The free pattern by Lyle Stafford is double knit.  Ravelry user Ommarienkaefer adjusted the pattern to make it legible to those of you who read Tengwar (ancient elven) on both sides.  The words are the ones inscribed on the ring of power wielded by Sauron.  “One Ring to rule them all.  One ring to bind them.  One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”  You can see a video of the entire scarf on my Instagram account.  (I'm eva_landeo on Instagram.)

I went to my LYS, Knitty City, to find the right yarn.  Knitty City, with it’s beautiful yarn selections, had the perfect yarn.  I chose Cascade Yarns Heritage Solids in Gold Fusion and Cascade Yarns Heritage Wave in Solar for the other.

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​I also purchased Alasdair Post-Quinn’s book Extreme Double-Knitting to teach myself how to knit this way.  The helpful staff at Knitty City highly recommended this book and it did not disappoint.  I’m looking forward to knitting quite a few patterns in this book and learning the techniques he explains so well.  Double-knitting is basically repeating k1p1 pattern while alternating colors.  By alternating stitches and colors on the different sides, the main color on one side is the contrast color on the other side and the contrast color on the first side is the main color on the other side.  You can see in the picture on the right that the gold fusion (yellow) shows as the contrast color on the solar (orange) side and the solar is the contrast on the gold fusion side.  It's time-consuming, but the ending result is very satisfying and because the textile created is double-layered, it is very warm!

As for the rest of my holiday knitting, it didn’t fully work out.  Fortunately, two of my gifts were timely despite the glitches.  I’ll write more about my other two projects soon.