Re-Starting Dad's Scarf

If you read my post about my October Knit-a-long project, then you know that frogged all the progress I had made on my dad's scarf because I couldn't find yarn to match the original. I wasn't as upset as I could have been because I haven't worked on it for a while, and also the elongated chevron looked pretty silly on the end of garter stitch.

My dad's scarf before I frogged it.

I'm notorious for just buying a skein of any yarn that I think looks nice if I have some spare cash on hand. Just one skein. Rarely do I buy yarn with any specific project in mind, but rather because I think I'd like to make something for a specific somebody. This often lands me in some trouble because I'll get the yarn home, make a project with it, and then have some left over, but never quite enough for whatever it is I want to make. This has happened to me with multiple scarves because looking at the yarn left after another project it seems like there's going to be enough for a scarf, and then I end up having to start over making a thinner scarf or give up entirely. This is the situation I'm in with my dad's elongated chevron scarf. But I thought to myself, "Hey, I know where I got the yarn, so I'll just go back and buy another skein and I can finish this scarf up." Unfortunately, my lack of planning meant I went to the store without the yarn and came home with a similar skein of yarn that didn't actually match the original.

Now not only am I going to have to start this scarf over, I'm going to have to start it over with the new yarn and leave a decent quantity of the other yarn without any idea of what I want it to be. At first I thought the old yarn would be a perfect candidate for my scrap blanket, but it just seems like there's something else I could use it for first because there's more than I really want left for me to add it to the blanket. One of the previously finished projects I have that I have not yet had the chance to post about it the hat I made for my dad with this yarn. I don't want to make another hat with it, but I'm not sure what else I could use it for. That is, until I found the October Knit-a-long.

October Knit-a-long project made with the old yarn from my dad's scarf.

I'm not sure if the cuff is going to use up enough of the yarn, but that's a problem for November. Now that I have that yarn in something, I just had to decide if I wanted to continue my dad's scarf with the elongated chevron patter. Well, I didn't really because the pattern is a pain to knit, and I think I'd have to do the whole scarf in it to make it look even reasonable, and I'm not sold. Maybe it would look better in a blanket. I have been drooling over the brioche stitch recently, and I think that's the way I'm going to go with this scarf. I'm pretty nervous about doing the actual stitch for no particular reason, but hopefully it will work out, and I'll have a scarf I can actually give to my dad.

Happy knitting!