KNITTING, part deux

I recently joined a knitting forum, knittingparadise.com, which has a lot of projects posted by members, including the Kansas City Cowl, whose name (obviously) caught my interest.  I have knit two of these, and I still have no idea what the significance of Kansas City is!  However, the cowl is a great size for a shrug, a scarf, and a double-wrapped-and-over-your-head scarf, which is incredibly useful here in Wyoming!  This is a Caron website pattern, with Caron Country being the recommended yarn. This one is knit from BambooEwe yarn, which is one of my favorite mass market yarns, now that I've moved to a place where you bundle up all the time.  It is very soft, but warm.  This is an incredibly fast knit, and is great for car time.  The center cable is knit, then stitches picked up along the side.  Once the stitches are picked up, you do a yarnover after every 5 stitches, then knit plain stockinette.  When it's the appropriate length and is ready to finish, you drop a stitch after every 5 stitches, then finish the piece.  I join back to the cable inset by picking up statches and doing a 3-needle bindoff, because I hate sewing seams.  When you're through, you "runner" the dropped stitches, exactly like getting a run in your hose.  When you get to the end of a run, you encounter the yarnover stitch you added (if you counted correctly!)

I have several friends whose lives have been impacted by breast cancer, so I have begun making pink keyhole scarves shaped like a memory ribbon.  I also need to make one in gray for my college roommate, whose teenage daughter was taken from us by brain cancer in November 2010.  I found a great blog (frogiezplace.blogspot.com) with a pattern for a cancer ribbon bag, and a list for what colors go with what variety of cancer.  Many of them made sense once I thought about it.  Gray=gray matter=brain. pink=girls, blue=boys=prostate cancer.  Our son-in-law now wears an orange remembrance bracelet in honor of his brother who is suffering from leukemia.  I don't know the significance of that one. 

.....back to my knitting.  I have made several of these keyhole ribbon scarves, and they are great doctors office knitting, as they take up very little space in a purse, and are absolutely brainless knitting!