My family knows me so well.

For my birthday in December they all gave me gift cards for Michael’s craft store, which amounted to around a $100 all together.  I finally had a chance to go do a little shopping, and one of the things I wanted to do was knit an infinity scarf.

I had not used the long looms before, though I had purchased them years ago.  When I first started loom knitting, I bought just about all of the looms.

I tend to go overboard with my crafting obsessions.

On this scarf I used the 18 inch loom.  I was going to make it like this tutorial, but decided to just do a big cowl.  I ended up using 4 skeins of yarn on it (total = $24), which was an Isaac Mizrahi variegated 15% wool/85% acrylic.

I can’t do 100% wool due to a wool sensitivity.  This was pretty decent on the itchiness scale.

It took probably 8 hours or so to knit this.  It was pretty easy, though time consuming.  It is nice to have a project to do while watching tv or listening to music.  When I finished it up, I made sure that the color on both ends were the same and then used the big knitting needle to sew them together.

It is a little big.  If I were to do it again, I would probably keep it to 3 – 3.5 skeins.  Total yardage on this was around 270 yards.

It is nice and warm, which is needed this week.  There was a dangerous wind chill advisory on Monday and the rest of the week we are starting out our mornings in the negative territory, hoping to make it above zero at some point.

BRRRRRRRR!