Button Scarf

Knitting is my current escape.  It's what I look forward to and the variety of potential projects excite me.  Part of the fun is taking an idea and recreating it on my own with customization for my recipient.

Near the end of last week a friend posted this picture on my Facebook wall wondering if I could recreate one for her:

Unfortunately this was from Pinterest and there was no link to either a pattern or store to reference.  It looked easy enough so I started exercising my resources to see what I could come up with.  I managed to find a similar product on Etsy listed for $39.  Don't get me wrong, these were some nice scarves but knowing the price of yarn and how long this project would take me, there's no way I'd pay $39 for a scarf...but now I know how much I could charge so I can quit my day job ;)  The pattern looked oddly familiar.  I searched back through past projects and quickly found another scarf I made two years ago which used the same stitch pattern:

I headed up to the yarn cave to see what I had.  Unfortunately I didn't find anything EXACTLY what my friend was looking for, but we were able to select a type of yarn for the project.  After a quick stop at Michael's after work for yarn and a button, I was ready to start.  The thing about MAKING something is you can pick everything out and design it to the specific person's liking.  I measured my friend yesterday to see how long to make the scarf and like I said, we picked out the type of yarn together.  Here's how the project progressed:

I used one complete skein of yarn and hoped that would be enough.  It was slightly shorter than we were estimating so I decided to block the scarf.  This also helped relax the yarn, open it up a bit, lengthen it, and flatten it out.  Here I am modeling the finished product:

To cover the supplies and my time - $15 for this custom piece of awesomeness.

The yarn I used for this one is on sale right now...you play your cards right - and by that I mean make a request - I'll make one for you too ;)