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With seven Ravelympic projects ( 3 wips and 4 new projects) on my plate, you know I’m falling behind, even though 1 new project and 1 wip have been completed. Yesterday, you heard about the current state of Ziggies (in ‘time-out’).

Today, it being WIP Wednesday, I’ll report on what I have been monogamously knitting on since Saturday, my Noro Striped Ribbed Scarf (Ravelry link). This is a very satifiying knit. The pattern was documented by Jared Flood of Brooklyn Tweed here, and is a simple 1×1 rib with edges slipped. The yarn is Noro Silk Garden, two skeins of 201, a skein of 221 and a skein of 244. The colors are teals and purples, greens, blues, maroon, black, grey and brown. The colors I am knitting with now are maroon, heading into the rust-orange and then olive-green/grey. Such subtle color shifting with the two shades playing against each other. Yummm, very delish!

Since it is a simple knit, I can get about 5″ knit in a couple of hours, and plan to knit until the yarn runs out. That will likely mean about 7 to 8 feet of scarf? This photo was taken Tuesday, just after I passed the halfway point:

Of course, this has lead to more stashing of other colors of Silk Garden to make more scarves. Just one addiction after another, here at Casa Randomthreads.