On Thursday the Tigers took over sole possession of the American League Central Division - I bought playoff tickets! As we all know, October in Michigan is questionable so I needed to whip up my Tiger scarf in preparation of next week's game. You'll recall a sweet scarf I made for Sister last year during the Tigers' playoff run. I literally finished this in the car on our ride to watch Verlander tear up the Rangers in game 5 of the ALCS - amazing...
I looked and looked for the right yarn because I wanted my scarf to be orange and blue. I had no luck, apparently no one wants to supply Tiger orange in yarn form. However, during one of my wanderings through JoAnn's I stumbled upon "Team Spirit" yarn - genious! Someone decided that putting orange and navy together in one skein of yarn was a good idea - thank you to that person.
Because of the colors, I knew I didn't need much of a pattern for the scarf so I decided to knit on my rectangular loom. I purchased two skeins of the yarn and did a quick test run to see if two strands would be sufficient for the scarf - it was not. I wound up a third ball which was actually 2-ply (for a total of four strands) and was off and knitting.
With colored yarn like this and multiple skeins, it's weird to see an actual pattern develop. In the picture above you can see everything is orange! Four strands of yarn were all the same exact color together...cool.
So, here's the finished product. It only took me a few hours to work on and now I'm ready for playoff baseball - GO TIGERS!
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