Diagonal Knitting!

A few years ago my Grandma gave me some really lovely Ultramerino yarn for Xmas. It was made by these people: http://www.artyarns.com/newsite/yarn_main.htm. It also came with a mutildirectional scarf pattern that she picked. (The story does go beyond this, someone told me that after finding the pattern in a book in the yarn store my Grandma told the clerk there she wouldn't buy the yarn unless they would make her a copy to the pattern. Reluctantly the clerk did it.) Well, I tried the pattern but there were a few key areas on it that made no sense to me. In fact, I'd say that that pattern beat me.

So a partial knit bit of this...

has been sitting on one of my knitting needles for a long time.

The other day I decided to have a look at it again. Years mature you and I thought maybe I was ready to tackle the 'demon' err diamond scarf pattern. No. It beat me again. So, I instead went and looked for a similar simpler pattern.

I found one here: http://www.burningbright.com/Karen/knitting/Accessory-Scarves/Multidirectional_Diagonal_Scarf.htm.

It's a good pattern and is very well explained. After a few days I have half the scarf done! (Though it does have a few little mistakes. I can't bring myself to take it apart and start all over again. It's therefore a scarf full of character.)

This is what it looks like knit:

Foxy.