I cast off the Angora Leaf Scarf last night, and breathed a huge sigh of relief. I wasn’t convinced that I’d have enough yarn to get me all the way to the point of the final leaf, but I was thrilled to find that I’d made it!
Thankfully, I’d decided to weigh the first leaf. That way I knew how much yarn I needed to have left after the straight part of the scarf, in order to get me all the way to the end.
Unfortunately, cutting things so fine meant that I didn’t have enough yarn left over to embroider the stem stitch detail on all three of the leaves, so I just added it to the top one.
The pattern calls for a transparent snap fastener to hold the top leaf in place, but the Colinette Parisienne is so fine that it would have been visible, and ugly. Instead I remembered a great big plastic ring that I had stashed away in my jewellery box. The delicate scarf pulled through the ring with no problems at all, and the leaves stop it from slipping around.
The perfect finishing touch!
