A little over a year ago, browsing through Pinterest, I came across
this pin.
A way to document weather during one year of your life.
You have different colors of which you pick a couple to reflect the sky each day and knit a stripe (two rows). The idea for this comes from
Lea Redmond from
Leafcutter Designs and her Conceptual Knitting, which has
a group on Ravelry too.
I didn't start it then, but thought the idea was brilliant. I talked about it with another knitter some time in the fall and she got really excited. It was actually her, who got me into this project again, when she asked me the link just in the last days of December. We decided to do it together, on our different ways and compare the results after this year.
Today, I went to a local yarn store and bought the yarn for it. I've made a note both today and yesterday about the color of the sky, so I know what to knit later. I was browsing through the blog posts about the pattern on Ravelry and noticed
a triangular version, by
Cabled Sheep, who documented the knitting of the scarf on her blog. She took the idea but changed the form. She used a Finnish designer's pattern
Lacy Baktus, which again is a variation of a Norwegian designer's
Baktus scarf. So now I am thinking about using the Baktus scarf pattern for making my Sky Scarf, instead of just making a straight rectangular scarf....
I mean to document my progress on the scarf here on the blog, every month, if I can manage. I'm excited to be doing this long-term project!
