Slow and steady seems to be the way to go with this one. It's starting to look like the picture on the pattern. What a simple pleasure.
As one who doesn't often follow the directions or rules to a tee, I feel the need to modify this pattern. The original pattern calls for you to complete the scarf flat and make the pockets separately, then sew one onto each end. I have a problem with this since I don't really enjoy sewing. And sewing knitting is even less fun for me. I don't have the knack for it. Hand sewing the pockets makes me envision unraveling and cell phone falling out of the increasingly larger hole. So I've devised a plan that I think will work. Feel free to let me know if this is a bad plan before I'm too far gone.
OK, the plan: knit the pockets as one solid piece with the scarf. Then simply fold over the pockets and only have to sew the side seams. Sounds simple, right? The glitch is the cable pattern. If I just knit the scarf 6 inches longer on each end (the size of each pocket) and fold over the ends the backside will be showing instead of my carefully made cables.
My final step in the plan is to continue knitting, but reversing the cable pattern so the back becomes the front. Then once the pockets are folded over the cabled side will be facing front on the scarf and the pockets. Does this make any sense? Have a I lost you? I'll post pictures as i go along.
So, now it's your turn. Tell me how you've modified a pattern to make it work better for you.
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