Happy Mail and 2026 Finished Project No 2

I was never going to knit a Sophie Scarf. For those who may not know the Sophie Scarf is a pattern which has gone viral in the places where people knit, and everyone and their grandmother has made one. I wasn't going to bother; partly because I thought it was just a little bit of nothing and partly because I tend to be a bit iffy about making things that everyone else is knitting. This may be why my wardrobe includes neither a Love Note nor a Ranunculus; both patterns for knitted tops which  have also gone viral. I went to Glasgow School of Yarn one year and of the first ten people I saw six were wearing Love Notes. It's probably a great pattern but you know - I was on the road less travelled. 

Then - a friend made me a Sophie Scarf for Christmas and I completely changed my mind. It's a fun little thing that's easy to wear and I really liked it. Might bear it in mind to make myself one I thought. And then ...

I got an e-mail offering 10% off the price of a redye job of Yarn Unique's Artist Club for December. Some of you may remember I gave up on this club round about last August? because of mix ups, never knowing which artist was going to feature, missing one that I would have liked etc etc. But the December colour was gorgeous and I thought immediately of my plans for  Sophie scarf. As I just needed one skein I splashed out and got it on  a base that included yak as I've neve knitted with yak before. It arrived last Wednesday 

and I cast it on that same evening. 

It got cast off on Saturday 

and here it is modelled

To maximise use of the skein I made it a little longer than the pattern calls for. Then I used some of what was left to put a square into my cosy memories blanket and I've still got 10 g to play with. You can't do a lot of playing with 10 g of yarn,  although a Ravelry search threw up an alarmingly high number of possible projects (over 1100) that you can make with approx 20 metres of DK! Who knew?