Church Mouse's Magic Three Yarn Scarf and Wrap

 I have looked at this pattern for years.  I purchased the recipe years ago and it is stored in Drop Box.  It might also be in my library on Ravelry?  I am working on a shawl that was a knit along with Casapinka this fall that is hard to pick up when the phone rings or I have a few extra minutes.  I keep making mistakes and ripping out.  I needed a mindless project to sit on my desk.  And this is exactly that.  It calls for three yarns.  One variegated, one mohair, and a bulky that calls for at gauge for size 10 needles.  So I raided my stash and found the following:

The red is 

The variegated is:

And the yellow is 

I cast on the recommended 190 stitches.  The wrap is knit from end to end rather than across.

I ended up setting this project aside in the spring to work on other projects and just pulled it out again in September 2022.  After finishing I decided to add fringe.  Then I decided I needed decent scissors to cut the fringe ....to even it up.  I really like the looks of this shawl.  I'll add a photo as soon as I find someone to take the photo even though I am still waiting on the new scissors to make final fringe trim.

How to avoid ladders on your sock when you knit with double pointed needles

 I remember having someone explain how to avoid these pesky ladders many years ago.  But I could not remember the explanation.  So today I looked on-line and it came back to me.  The secret is to make sure that the two needles that you are working with are behind the needle you just finished using.  It is also helpful to move a few stitches every round or two so the joins are mot in the same place all of the time.

I took the below from a You Tube presentation found at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uCe9s0FA34

up and down and the old needle is in the front allowing one to have the needles now being worked on to be very close in the back.

In this process, one tugs on the second stitch knitted on the new needle rather than the first stitch.