Calorimetry Headscarf

i actually saw the pattern for this headscarf a year ago. I thought it was gorgeous but i just couldn't figure out how it was done. at the time, i hadn't done short rows before and i had no clue how to transfer a pattern from needles to loom. flash forward a year, and one of the ladies on the DALooms list on Yahoo brings it up again. when i went back to look at it again, with a more experienced looming eye, i thought, "ah ha! now i get it!" so i went to work yesterday and made one!
first off, let me say, i wasn't certain it would come out right, so i didn't want to use any of my favorite yarns. recently my friend gave me like 6 or 8 of those Caron One Pound skeins of yarn. that's a lot of yarn! and two of them were in this purply reddish color that i didn't particularly care for. so i wound up a bit on my ball winder (i'll write a little more in another post why i like to do this) and went to work.
now, ya'll know me. i NEVER do a swatch test. never. so, that being said, i wasn't sure if i should use my green or yellow knifty knitter loom. the scarf looks like it calls for a smaller gauge loom, but this was just a test pattern and i wanted it to knit up quick. but then i realized my green loom is still occupied with the baby blanket for my friend (who had her baby a few weeks ago! oh well. at least she got the mittens, bib, and mitts in time!) so i went with the yellow loom, but that would make the scarf too big, so i decided to omit a few pegs. i ended up using 30 pegs of the yellow loom. the pattern calls for a knit 2 purl 2 ribbing, so i marked off the knit pegs with small elastics. then i wrapped a piece of scrap yarn around the middle ten pegs that i wasn't gonna work for the short rows and went to work.
it took me over five hours, but that's only because i was watching TV more than i was knitting. and then i stopped for an hour or so to make dinner for me and my boyfriend. i think if i worked straight through, i could probably finish it in under two hours. i'm not a fast knitter, i'm sure a more experience person could do it in about an hour.

of course, because i didn't swatch, it was too small!!!!!! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

but it actually came out pretty good! the seam where the short rows are is a little funky. i'm not quite sure why. i'll probably just knit a strap or something to connect the back and add a button. i'm actually starting to like the one i made and i would consider wearing it, but it clashes horribly with my hair. but after making this one, i have ideas of how to make other ones with different stitches and yarns so i can wear them now in the summer. i think for the next one i'm gonna go with e-wraps and purls so the knitting is a little looser and airier and maybe i'll try and all e-wrap one or one with eyelets! maybe next time i'll use one strand of yarn instead of two! the ideas are endless. i'm probably gonna do another one tomorrow. we'll see how that one turns out!

here are the pics! this is the front of it. i didn't weave in the ends yet. there actually isn't that much weaving to do, which is a definate plus for me!!!


here's the back. looks pretty much the same as the front.


and here it is on my head. i had to hold the two back ends together with my hands, but you get the idea of how its suppose to look.