Here is "Forbes Forest," finished and blocked --
The pattern is fairly simple for cabling, and easily memorized. It was nice to just breeze along the wrong side working "as presented" (that is, knitting the Ks and purling the Ps). I did have a little trouble keeping interested, as I've said before, but I'm happy with the way it turned out.
The Jaeger is very pleasant to work with, and softened even more with just the simple rinse I gave it. The scarf does still curl in at the edges a bit, just inside the garter stitch border.
The color is off a shade or so in these close-ups -- it's a pine-y loden green, deeper and more "forest-y" than the rather mossy original.
(Lady looked very pretty with her heliotrope and purple against the loden. My favorite train layouts have a lot of S-curves, as I love the motions of the trains as they wind, so this part of the cable has a special appeal to me!)
Gorgeous! I loved knitting this scarf as well.
Posted by: Carolyn | July 24, 2005 at 04:01 PM
Beautiful and well done. Can you tell me what is the name of the book for this pattern !
Posted by: Michelle | July 31, 2005 at 10:08 AM
The pattern is from Scarf Style, by Pam Allen (1931499543), available from Interweave Press or from Amazon.com at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931499543/qid=1122850769/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1/102-3912359-9652143?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Posted by: Jeanne | July 31, 2005 at 04:09 PM
Thank you so much Jeanne, I will certainly order it ! :-)
Posted by: Michelle | July 31, 2005 at 09:10 PM
The scarf came out great!
Also, I LOVE the V.W. knitting picture and am very partial to the word "bluestocking". You did a great job with the heading of your blog!
Posted by: Annie | August 03, 2005 at 05:01 PM
This ia a superb and fascinationg piece of art work I love the details, I'm a novice and hope to create and work this pattern. Xea
Posted by: Xeaya | August 16, 2005 at 08:56 PM
you inspired me to make a forbes forest too--in classic elite inca alpaca, a kind of orangy-brown color with green undertones, I think they call it harvest. At first I thought the scarf was going to be too itchy, but it came out very soft after I dunked it in some warm water and let it dry for a couple of days. Its for my son--thanks for the inspiration!
Posted by: marilyn | October 15, 2006 at 07:19 PM