Another Scarf FO

We've been having some little power outages or flickers off and on the last couple of days. Brings back memories of when we were first here and the power went off every day of the week, 5 times a day for 2 hours each time. Then it was on all night. Sheesh. Anyway, I'm hoping it will stay on and not go off completely for awhile!

I finished another scarf. I liked this yarn a lot, but I'm not sure I like how it turned out in the scarf. I think if I do a varigated yarn like this one again, I'll try for a black warp instead of a white warp. I think it would set the colors off differently, better. The warp on this one was longer, 100 inches total rather than 80. And it is also wider, 6 inches instead of 5.25. I think I like the longer, wider size, but it sure uses a lot more yarn.
I'm working on the embroidery today, thinking through what I want to try next. I am sure I have more yarn around here some place, other that what I have in the suitcase here next to my desk. There is a lot of reds, pinks, white and purples in this, with only one yellow and a black skein. I know I have some other colors somewhere! Just need to find them after I put them away when we left.

I'm also thinking of how I can weave two or three "scarfs" in the same color and pattern and then sew them together to make a shawl. I'm hoping I can get these all to a old folks home or the hospice place for use, rather than to the orphanage or kids. It seems that the orphanage has a lot of this kind of stuff and I'm sure the older folks are often left out completely. One of the women who is coming to the prayer meeting on Tuesdays goes to visit her mother "in hospice" and asks for prayer for her all the time. I don't know any details about what this "hospice" is, but will be looking into it and seeing if things like shawls and/or lap afghans could be used. We'll see!

I also need to start thinking about more yarn! It's for sale here, just need to find a good, cheaper place to buy it - or do some comparrison shopping and see if it would be cheaper to have it shipped over if I bought it in bulk somehow. I don't want to go overboard, but I want to do this as cheaply as possible. We'll see how it works out.

For now - one more finished (and I did keep records on it for my weaving journal!) and thoughts whirling around in my brain as to what comes next!

I love it.