LOL OWL scarf

Here's a fine little knit-meme project, the ORLY and YARLY owls immortalized in yarn:

Scarf Rly, an "O Rly" Owl scarf pattern. Created by Rebecca Stern, original idea by Justin Gutterman. One end says "O Rly?" and other other, "Ya Rly." Because I hate the way carried-yarn patterns have a front and back, I tried to weave the carried yarn through the knit-1-purl-1 pattern of the scarf, but I'm not quite happy with it. Sure, the image has no front and back now (except the readability of the text), but it's a bit dense, not stretchy, and slow-going.

Link (via Craft!)

[#1 posted by EH , January 1, 2008 9:49 AM]

Great start!

[#2 posted by RugerRedhawk , January 2, 2008 7:46 AM]

That looks like hell.

[#3 posted by elpea , January 2, 2008 7:56 AM]

Sorry, but that's a lazy way to do colorwork and it looks bad to show for it. I've seen a lot of people do internet-meme themed knits, but it was better. I'll have to send links next time I see something.

[#4 posted by Anonymous , January 4, 2008 11:23 AM]

Stumbled upon this page; neat idea. For reversibility, have you thought about trying double knitting? No floats, and the negative image on the reverse!

Link to tutorial:
http://www.stitchdiva.com/custom.aspx?id=142

Link to beautiful example:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13718326@N08/1478504348/in/set-72157602307506341/