Christina's Two Scarves in Progress

I'm not usually a scarf-knitting kind of girl (especially since Steve's aunt Ellen is great at this, and keeps me outfitted in several beautiful scarves a year) but I was recently moved to start two scarf projects. The first is actually a gift for someone else, and came up because Ellen sent me absolutely beautiful hand-dyed and spun yarn from California for Christmas. I think it was merino, but I'm not sure. It seemed like the perfect yarn to try out lace with, so I tried the "Branching Out" pattern on knitty.com and made the pinkish scarf you see here. I liked it more than I thought I would, and it wasn't that hard - but the one skein of yarn wasn't really enough and it's a little short. Ideas? I've thought of beading the edges - that wouldn't actually add functional length, but it might make it look longer at least.

Then, I went out to Seattle and saw my good friend Kerrie, and she has access to some fantastic knitting stores. She was knitting a scarf with Manos Del Uruguay yarn (kettle dyed handcrafted wool made by collectives of women) and I fell in love. She took me to her yarn store, and I bought two hanks of the 104 yarn - they don't name their colorways, but I would call this one harvest (I think Cyndie called it The 70's!).

The pattern is one she found over at Sheep in the City (http://www.sheepinthecity.prettyposies.com/archives/000079.html) and it's one you can do while talking, unlike another project I had brought to Seattle to work on. So, this scarf was born! It's not done yet, but I'm keeping it when it is - I'm excited to cuddle into it and it matches my winter coat! This one will be long enough - I might even have a little of this pretty yarn left over to be an accent on something else.