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Never enough scarves. Especially if they're purple.

Materials: 4 balls Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran Tweed (85% Wool, 10% Silk and 5% Cashmere) in #124, Jewel. Size 8 needles. Pattern: Irish Hiking Scarf.

Time: One month

Cost: $12 (for half of the yarn)

This was a quick knit that I'd entirely forgotten about because I'd shoved it in a drawer after completion, thinking that I'd eventually block it before wearing it in winter. Winter is here and I'm still disinclined to block, so I decided to take it out of confinement and let it enter my large seasonal scarf rotation anyway.

My real motivation for this pattern was finding my beloved (and normally prohibitively expensive) Silkroad Aran Tweed on sale at Webs, and realizing that I still had two unused balls of the stuff left over from Rogue #1. Folks, it's a nice yarn, and most definitely one that you want hanging around your neck. Plus I can't own enough purple. So, two more balls of the same color were ordered to get enough to make a scarf. The Irish Hiking Scarf seemed like a likely contender for a pattern -- I loves me some cables, and they're mindless enough to do in front of the TV -- so the whole thing was finished very quickly.

I'm afraid that this is going to be my default scarf for most of the winter -- it's the perfect mixture of soft enough to feel lovely but thick enough to block the wind. Mmm -- after typing this review, I'm off to bookmark the Jo Sharp page on Webs and stalk this yarn until it comes back on sale sometime in the distant future.