Lesson learned...the hard way

I have scarves coming out of my ears! I am on a full blown scarf kick.  It started with the Christmas scarves - the ruffled ones & the chunky one.  Okay, that is a lie.  It actually started with the Manitou Passage scarf that I just had to knit.  When I saw this scarf being knitted by a friend, I knew I had to knit it - to say I was captivated would be an understatement.  Obsessed might be a better word.  Okay, but, and I quote - "I hardly ever knit scarves", what is a girl to do?  Well, if you are this knitter then you commit to knitting the scarf via continental knitting because you remember you are trying to convert to continental knitting.  Phew, crisis averted.  

The only problem is that this scarf started an avalanche.  Why not knit more scarves? Oh and why not knit scarves for Christmas (see post here & here).  Well, I finished the Christmas scarves, but this one is still hanging on.  The Manitou Passage scarf was originally going to be a Christmas scarf until disaster struck.  I was happily knitting away on the scarf when I almost got until the end of the first skein of yarn and realized I hadn't bought enough yarn to properly finish the scarf.  I had two skeins of Manos del Uruguay Maxima and I really needed three.  No problem - I work at a knitting store, I will just pick up the third when I go in for knit night.  

Except when I went to knit night all ready to pick up the third skein what I found was an empty hook where the yarn should have been.  All the rest of the skeins were gone! Gone!  ARgh!!!  I did the only thing a knitter can do and that was to pout.  Silently.  Briefly.  Then let it go & ripped out the scarf and restarted from the beginning.  As other Raveler's have done, I modified the pattern to 12 stitch cables with 1 edge stitch per side.  I re-cast on for the scarf (12*3 + 2 = 38 stitches) and away I went.  I got lot of knitting done on this over Christmas and *hope* to have it done before the end of January.