I’m knitting the simplest of scarves (and hopefully the quickest) because I’m working to a self-imposed deadline of 24 hours from start to finish.

The pattern is the Airy Scarf from Last-minute knitted gifts by Joelle Hoverson, but I’m using two strands of Kidsilk Haze instead of just the one as specified. Combining pale pink ‘Fondant’ with the deep raspberry ‘Blushes’ is giving an interesting colour variation and a much more textural effect than with the single yarn, and it’s still as soft and light as a cloud.

In the book, the scarf appears in the ‘two to four hour gifts’ section. Well, my knitting speed isn’t up to that! I cast on at 3.30pm yesterday and as is the way of these things, did a bit and broke off to do something else, did a bit more and went to cook supper, did a bit more …and so on, so quite how many of the 24 hours I’ll have spent on it by the time it’s off the needles I don’t know. What I do know is that I’m getting a lot of pleasure from making it (and knitting against the clock adds to that, actually) and I hope someone will enjoy wearing it when it’s done.

I’m delighted to be taking part – at Natalie’s kind invitation – in the p/hop birthday celebrations, and to be helping to spread the word about Médecins sans Frontières. I shall think of my scarf as the raspberry fondant icing on the p/hop birthday cake, but time is short so I must pick up those needles again!

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Thank you Cornflower. You can read more from Cornflower here.

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