Windowpane scarf in Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable Dragonfly

This was the last of my Christmas crochet blitz.

My sister loves the colour of Dragonfly, and since we are having a 'you get what I make' gift exchange, I think this is perfect. She wears hats and scarves, so it's win win. Yay!

I wasn't 100% sure about doing the Windowpane pattern. Not that I didn't like it, but I wanted something my sister knew I put some time in to. Although the pattern is simple, it comes out beautiful with the Unforgettable colourway. It really works on this scarf. It's not too short or too long.  So in this case. I think it's ok that it's easy, because it looks elegant in its simplicity.

I used just over 2 skeins for the hat and scarf together. I could of used 2 exactly, but I wanted the scarf a bit longer.  With 1-1/2 skeins it came out (the hat is about 1/2 a skein) to about 54" so I used another skein to kick it up to 60" long. 

After wet blocking, it came out to 7" wide and 68", not too shabby. The recommendation is to kill it for blocking, but dang, that's scary. If I had more time to remake the scarf if needed, I would give it a shot, but alas, I didn't want to risk it.  I did however tell my sister how to do it if she wanted to :) 

Wrapping things up for Christmas

I wanted simple wrapping for the hat and scarf sets I made for my mom's nurses. I also wanted them 'open' so that they could choose which color they wanted. 

I was shopping the other day and came across Hefty EZ Ovenware that has the plastic open lids and cardboard type bottom that was also big enough to hold the hat and scarf. Perfect! Even better they were inexpensive!

I printed out simple round 2.5" labels (Avery 22808) and stuck them on the center of the lid and used some shiny Christmas ribbon...is that stuff called ribbon? Hrmmm, it's not fabric, but plastic like. Oh well, moving on.

I named each scarf set after the Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable Color that it was made from.  I also gave a simple desciption, since each set has a different scarf.

Tidal Waves: Hat and Scarf set

Echo Mist: Hat and Fringed Scarf Set

Cranberry Fields: Hat and Cowl Set

It might seem odd, but I like the look, a lot actually. It's clean and simple..and best of all they can use the wrapping afterwords! How splendid is that??

Isar Scarf in Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable

I love the colour changes in Echo. It's funny though, when you look at the skein, it doesn't seem to have a lot of range. Scarves work really well with this color.  I want to keep it and hug it and wrap it around my neck...but alas, no, it's a gift...but I can and will make myself one too!

The pattern I used is the Isar Scarf by Julia Vaconsin which is a FREE download on Ravelry. Yay!

The pattern works up quickly and after you get past the first row, it's really easy to crochet along while watching Netflix. I checked the stitches during the gaggy bits of Hannibal (the series). Love the show, but some bits make me cringe a bit!

You can tell from the next two pictures that there is a difference in color. I've found in the last 2 projects I've done, one in Tidal and this one in Echo, that the skeins don't match - even though they are the same dye lot.



Thankfully when wearing it, it does not look all funky and bargain bin. it looks like it slowly goes from light to dark. yah..I made it like that...hahaha!



The scarf worked out to be 6oz, and 8" X 60" (with Fringe)