A customer came in today and was talking about The Sky Scarf. It is a very simple thing but is kind of a cool idea. Basically you are keeping a record of the sky for the year through knitting. You look outside and see what the sky is like every day for a year - always a good idea anyway to get outside every day. And you knit 1 row of your scarf in corresponding colors. So if you go out in the morning and it is partly cloudy, you'd pick a white and blue, knit them together into that day's row. Stormy weather - a light and dark grey, full on sunshine - two blues, or maybe a blue and yellow for the sunshine. You can mix it up a little. Mary decided she would use a purple on special days - like her birthday, or holidays. You could decide to "code" your colors if you don't love blue. Make all light blues orange, dark blue a red, grey a black, etc to give yourself a more colorful scarf. Or be sure that the time of day you look out is during sunset and use those colors. At the end of the year you have 365 days of scarf that hardly took you any effort and is a cool thing to show off. Mary said that she knows there are days she won't even have time to knit one row and so is keeping a calendar on which she will mark the colors of the day. Then if you get a block of time (say at the monthly Sky Scarf Meetup here) you can do them all.
We will be meeting for this first one in January - Wed. the 2nd, 4pm to get started. It's free. I will have lots of blues and greys and white in stock of Cascade 220 Sport so you can pick the 5 or so colors you'll be using. The website for the pattern is www.leafcutterdesigns.com.
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