More Christmas knitting, done!

Kristin's scarf WIP

I didn't get a picture of the FO before giving it away to my secret Santa at work today, but this WIP shot gives you a pretty good idea of the end result -- picture the ends fringed. Here's a close-up. It's my reversible mini-cable scarf, done in chunky Patons UpCountry, 20 stitches across on 8 mm needles (should have used 22 for symmetry, oh well). I thought it looked really pretty on my coworker. Next time I use this yarn, though, I'll make a swatch and wash it before I cast on anything with it -- the scarf grew about 30% (mostly lengthwise) with soaking and laying flat!! The fabric loosened up and draped much more nicely after that (no pinning out required), but I could have stopped knitting at 2 skeins instead of 2 1/2, and I would have had plenty of length post-blocking. Rae, if you're reading this, I really hope you washed your swatch and took the yarn's tendency to grow into account before starting that lovely ice-blue sweater a few months ago...