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A significantly more substantial woolly number.

Materials: Two balls of Rowan Biggy Print wool. Biggy-size (size 18) needles.

Time: A couple of hours.

Cost: $29.54 for yarn.

I feel for this yarn when I was poking around the Knitting Tree with a friend. The colors are great, the texture is pronounced enough so that you don't have to do anything fancy with the stitch pattern, and the wool is sooooft.

OK, I should've bought more than 2 balls, though. On size 18 needles, the finished product (in stockinette, since anything else would've probably used more yarn) is juuust long enough to stay wrapped securely around my neck. On the plus side, this yarn knits up insanely fast (and without problems) -- I made this scarf while reading a couple Canterbury Tales in front of my computer.

The finished product served me well for one long, cold winter. Unfortunately, it started to pill up and shed by the end of the season, and left me with lots of little fibers stuck to my wool coat. It's nothing that a lint roller can't solve, though the extra fibrey-ness was somewhat irritating.

I know that shedding and pilling problems are endemic to polar-weight yarn, so I'm not holding out hope for another year's worth of immaculate wear. It was great while it lasted, though. And if I see the yarn on sale, I'm going to stock up for next winter.

I love how your scarf turned out, I have two balls of the same to knit a little handbag from the Rowan big knit pattern book. I'm a little worried, though, that it won't wear well, if you had pilling problems with a scarf. I guess I'll just have to save it for special occasions.

your scarf is so pretty!

i knit a scarf with 2 skeins of biggy print using size 36 needles and it turned out well, no holes or anything. i used a k1p1 rib stitch. when i ordered the yarn the place i ordered it from suggested those size needles, and it is long enough to wrap around my neck 2+ times.

Yes, I'd recommend larger needles (relatively speaking) for anybody who'd like to knit a scarf out of this. I actually did my first version of this in k1p1, but it was much too short. If you were using larger needles, though, that would probably keep it warm -- I'm thinking of buying some more of this stuff and hording it for next winter, now.