No, this isn't about the quilt that's going to take me the rest of my life.

I figured out how to make a honeycomb patterned scarf with fall colours.  Oh my heart.

Oddly enough, a lot of the clothing I either purchase or make for myself are inspired by my numerous day dreams.  There's something about making my life into something that I find ideal that makes even the smallest things or the seemingly most insignificant days feel a little extra magical and purposeful.  Much like crafting, it helps me feel like I'm making my dreams real.

I designed the idea on www.stitchfiddle.com.  To make this pattern work with all of my various different colours.  I originally attempted to keep all of the colours separate, but found that with so many changes in yarn that it simply wouldn't hold together very well.  I attempted a couple of times, but quickly realised that I was merely bashing against a brick wall repeatedly, anticipating an entrance.

To keep everything together and solid, I took the dark grey yarn as the base, then introduced each colour where they were needed.  Lucky for me, the colours managed to stay bright and happy even though the grey was present.  

After that was figured out, all I really needed to do was keep knitting until it was long enough- and considering my ridiculous standards for scarves, that was going to take a while.

I just didn't fully appreciate just how long it would take.  

This scarf took me a year to make.  Granted, I got distracted by MANY other things, as you may have noticed, but nontheless.

This scarf saw me through many adventures.

Everything from some dear memories with my childhood cat to adventures with my mum and brothers.

I kept promising myself that I would only need 12 more inches, and yet there was always more.  When I got to the end, it didn't seem possible that it could be finished.

And it wasn't!  The best part of doing colour work is running in all of those itty bitty ends! 

At a certain point I felt like I must have died and this was my everlasting punishment for something I did but couldn't remember doing.  I always felt tantalizingly close but still had a million more ends to run in until they all stopped reappearing by the hundreds, and one by one all of the ends disappeared into the fabric.

I couldn't be more happy.  I loved this scarf so much that I had dreams about it long before it was finished.  This has been a year and a half in the making and I can't believe it's real.

Stay sweet, stay crafty, and stay tuned.