WOW!!!! I love the scarf it's so bright and such even looking stripes that I've never been able to accomplish with self striping yarn

It's Red Heart Super Saver Stripes yarn. Probably one of their better efforts at making a self striping yarn. Nice and squishy as it works up. The stitch I used is granite stitch.

I have about four other scarves in other colors and styles of yarn that I'm using the same stitch.

I like the Red Heart Stripes yarn because I get nice color changes, and I don't have to cut the yarn and add on a new color to get it. Less finishing too. I used two skeins for the scarf in the pictures. All I had to do for finishing was to weave in the tails at the beginning and end, and then the tails where I added on the second skein.

I would like another colorway that isn't so much of a rainbow, but maybe using two or three complimenting colors that switch around every once and awhile. I need to buy some of another type of yarn that I think Red Heart also makes. It was an striping ombre yarn. I just haven't seen any yet.

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So, I've had this ball of yarn sitting next to me for the past couple of weeks, just begging me to make something out of it. So, here's my first 8 rows.

again, it's still the granite stitch. Not sure what it is about this stitch, but it's such a comfortable stitch to do, and I love the feel of the fabric that it makes.

I didn't make it as wide as the other scarves, since I only have the one ball. This is the Sweet Roll by Premiere Yarns. The color name is Grape Swirl.

I have no idea why the coding for the picture is weird. But, as long as the picture is showing up for everyone. Oh, well.

Oh that is going to make another beautiful scarf... I love the purple! In the picture at least those purples seem to lean far more to the blue tones than red which is my favorite side of the purple spectrum

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It's an ombre yarn, and doesn't repeat as often as the self striping yarn did. I do really like the shades of purple though. My favorite color is orange, but purple is just one of those colors that always draws my eyes when yarn shopping. I'll lean more towards purples and blues when picking out multicolored yarns a lot of times.

and here's another one of my scarves, a nice solid red. (Red Heart Super Saver Cherry Red) I've been working on this one for about a week.

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Pound puppies!!!

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So that's 3 quilts ready for backing and batting 7 more to go by Christmas, with cancer treatments for my dad, eye surgery too possibly and 2 surgeries for me.... phew we're a bit quilt crazed for sure lol... oh yeah and my aunt sprained her wrist that she just got out of the cast after breaking it so there goes the extra help

Tall ships 2.0 ready to get quilted 😊

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And my brother's tall ships, squared off and ready to get quilted (totally cheating and doing a quilt as you go on each block then sewing the, together and adding the backing with a simple stitch in the ditch between blocks)

Forgot picture lol

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