The starting point was Triangles and fringes scarf by Irina Poludnenko. (Her designs are just stunning, BTW. I mean, seriously, look at this.) I modified it, mostly because I’m making it out of only one skein of Noro Silk Garden.

My sister Linda and I took a trip a few summers ago to North Carolina, to visit her daughter (my niece and namesake, thank you very much), who was finishing up her graduate degree at Chapel Hill. Suzanne (niece/daughter) was doing an internship in Bayboro, with UNC-provided lodging in a spectacular house right on the water in Oriental, a beautiful village on the coast. (I’m told that Oriental is Sailing Capital of North Carolina.) We took a couple of day trips to the bright lights of New Bern, where author Nicholas Sparks now lives.

And because I am who I am, and I am a knitter, I found a LYS in New Bern.

I bought my very first skein of Noro there. It was Silk Garden 201, and I only bought one skein because it was really just a souvenir of Oriental/New Bern. When I went searching for something to do with it and found Irina’s intriguing pattern, I had a feeling I had found it.

I’m loving it so far.

I cast on 18 stitches instead of 30, and I couldn’t figure out how to do the fringes the way she instructed. (“Cast on 5 sts by inserting the right needle between first and second sts on left needle, yarn around needle and through. B.o. 5 sts just casted on.” Nope. Never could figure that out.) So I made up a way to do it myself, using a crochet hook.

(I have a really bad video demonstrating it, but it’s way too sucky to publish here. I’ll redo it when I have a better set up, and upload it then. Promise!)

In any case, the pattern takes advantage of the Noro color changes, and the entrelac triangles and stubby fringes add a lot of interesting texture. I’ll take decent photos of it when it’s finished.

Which, hopefully, won’t be too soon! I’m enjoying this so much, I find myself dragging my feet, so to speak, so I can enjoy it a little longer! Is that sad?