On the Needles ... or Another Angora Adventure

On our way back home to NZ from India we stopped off in Melbourne for a few days. I took this opportunity to pick up some more Angora yarn due to the success of the Angora beret I had knitted for Geri in the days before we left India - yes, she can actually wear it and have it touching her skin without it setting off her mast cells. I had in mind a scarf to go with the beret using a pattern from this book:

Vintage Knitwear for Modern Knitters 

This picture of the scarf isn't that good, but gives you a rough idea of what it looks like:

Orkney Angora 100% Angora 4 pl

Angora Leaf Scarf

Morris Hanspun 100% Angora

Hunting for yarn that Geri can tolerate is quite a mission. The pattern calls for the use of Orkney Angora 4 ply so I had tracked some down on the internet before we left Australia and added it to the stash to take to India.  However when it arrived Geri declared that it wasn't going to be suitable. GARG, back to the drawing board I went.



I had seen some very soft hand woven Angora at Morris and Sons so I picked up a hank and brought it home for the Geri acid test, which it passed with flying colours.  Back I went and bought a few more hanks to add to the stash for India.

Fast forward a few months and there we were in Melbourne. As the yarn had shown such promise I decided it would be prudent to add to the stash whilst I had the opportunity.

Last week I started work on the scarf but after working on it for a couple of evenings I could no longer ignore the niggle in my head which was telling me that I didn't like how it was looking. I consulted with Geri who due to having the 'flu really couldn't have cared less at that stage. I decided to make an executive decision and unraveled the whole thing before commencing the search for a pattern that would be a better fit for the yarn.
I came across this one:

Lacy V Scarf by Pegg Thomas

and it looked like it would fit the bill perfectly so I decided to give it a go.

It is knitting up very quickly and I should think I'll have it finished within the week. I love fast projects!

This is a long thin scarf and is suiting the Morris Angora much better. I'll probably just keep knitting until I've finished the yarn completely. Although ... I might do a knitted trim for the ends before finishing the actual scarf as I rather liked the look of the knitted trim on the TMS shawl... hmmmm, I foresee more scheming on the horizon.