Time for a Finished Object {FO}!

My apologies for the long wait between posts. I was giving some serious contemplation to creating a website and having a blog connected to the website. After much consideration, free won out. {Stands to reason if I do not spend the money on the annual fee for a website, then that money is freed up to be spent on yarny things!} While I was contemplating, I held off from posting here.  Sorry to have left you hanging there.  

Hopefully showing a FO {Finished Object} will make up for it in some way.  This project was started and completed during my "contemplation." While visiting Gourmet Yarn Company

{Click on name to go to store website} in Oklahoma City, I kept noticing the FishKnit Scarf  from the Morehouse Farm Merino Knits Book {page 89}.  

The Baby Alpaca Grande Paint was also calling out to me. This bulky weight, 100% superfine Baby Alpaca by Indiecita is distributed by Plymouth Yarn Company. I had been wanting an excuse to try out this soft yarn and it was a pleasure to knit with! 

I wanted a skinner version of the scarf, so I only cast on 17 stitches using the backward loop cast on.   Click here for a video on how to do this cast-on that is also known as the Single Cast-on: Knitting-Help

Using size 10.5 needles, this was a quicker project than I have been knitting previously.  Part of the fun comes when you have completed the knitting and it is time to bind off.  I had never dropped stitches on purpose.  Here is a shot of my first row after I dropped a stitch and pulled it down to the cast-on row.

After you get over the initial uneasiness of dropping stitches on purpose, it becomes fun.   Here is a shot of the completed scarf.  Sorry this is not a very good picture.  I did not have anywhere "artsy" to take the photo so I had to settle for a bench on a really sunny day.

Carpe knitting,

KZ