I’ve been wanting to make it to the South of France forever. I almost managed to make it there over Easter, but that plan was rained out (yup, literally as well). But maybe I’ll make it to the Provence in September - one of my (myriad) cousins is getting married in Nice and hopefully I’ll have enough time for a side trip. Til then I’ll be dreaming of the South of France.

This project was therefore aptly named. It was my mindless project - I could work on this whenever I was waiting at the doctor’s office, in the car (as a passenger!), on the metro etc - whenever I had a little bit of time and didn’t want to deal with a pattern or chart that I had to remember. The rest of the time I had other projects going, so I figured this would linger forever and ever til it would be finished. But au contraire!

I cast on with a 5.5mm needle but then knit the remainder with a 5.0mm needle except for the cast-off where I used the larger needle instead. I knew I wanted to use 20 stitches for the fringe. I used the long-tail cast-on and basically just cast on until I used up the yarn tail (except for the amount that I used to complete the join plus a few stitches). I ended up with 288 stitches on the needles, plus the two twisted stitches, plus the 20 stitches for the fringe, so a total of 310 stitches.

I’m really really happy with the scarf. I first thought that it would be rather skinny and thought I’d try to rustle up another skein (but it’s not one of the colors that Sundara is currently reproducing). I’m now kicking myself, thinking that this would make for a lovely sweater, with it’s subtle color changes. Plus cashmere, nom nom nom. This is not the last time I will be knitting with this yarn.

Oh, and I knit this scarf on my treasured Holz & Stein needles - OMG! The circular needles aren’t suited to magic loop - the nylon cord is too thick, but this had a small enough diameter to knit the loop. And that wood is just divine, the knitting was so ridiculously smooth. Mmmmmm….