Something's Finished

So I actually finished something! Well, truth be told, I finished it about a month ago, but it's been sitting around, just waiting to be blocked.

Specs: Rickenbacker Scarf by Kristen Kapur (free Ravelry download)
Yarn: Malabrigo Silky Merino in Raspberry, purchased at Tangled Yarns while we were on holiday at Christmas
Needles: 4.5mm

I bought the yarn while we were on holidays at Christmas. We visited Tangled Yarns, and I wanted to buy something, but didn't really have anything in mind. The Malabrigo was luscious, so I grabbed the two remaining skeins and decided it would make a gorgeous scarf. And it did, but it took me forever to decide which scarf to make!
I trawled Ravelry until I found this one, but I knew I had way more yarn than the scarf needed so I made a few alterations.
To start with I cast on 33sts so I could do three pattern repeats instead of two, to make it wider. The pattern has you do the ruffle in a contrast colour, but I did a few pattern repeats, then went back and pulled out the provisional cast one and did the ruffle from the other end of the ball I was knitting with. Then I just kept doing repeats until I ran out of yarn.
The pattern has you knit all the way to the other end, then do the second ruffle. But as the pattern is directional, I knit the two halves in exactly the same way, and grafted the scarf in the centre so that both ends would match. (I'm a bit picky that way!)

And ta-da! I love it! The library where I'm doing my work placement right now is like an icebox, so I wore it to work on Tuesday, and it was perfect. It's pretty long, but that's good for me, because I like to double it up for extra warmth. It's nice and soft around my neck, and waaaarm.
Perfect!

And even better, I also finished the back of Shimmer.

And started seaming Tempest - I'm making up for lost time now.