Two more scarves from the Special Stitches pattern book. The top one came out especially nice. I had to modify the border for the bottom one because I was running out of yarn and it made me realize I don’t think I’ve done a single one of these exactly the way the book said. Usually I just change the border but in some cases I’ve changed the number of colors or eliminated pieces I didn’t like.

That’s a nice thing about crochet is that it lends itself to on-the-fly modifications really easily. I remember when I could first read a pattern and get an idea of what each step in the instructions was going to make happen. It was after I’d done some thread crochet Christmas ornaments – very complicated and intricate. Getting those right taught me a lot.