My Cityscapes pillow top is done! Thanks for the help on the edge.
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Hello there! Your scarf turned out beautifully! I’m making mine into a wall hanging too. 
This is the first intarsia project I’ve done. I have a question that I can’t find an answer for. I know you are supposed to work with lengths of yarn rather than the whole ball, and not carry anything. But in the case of the little window and door, the same background color is used on both sides of them. So without carrying yarn across the window and door, do you just have multiple strands of the background color going? So you pick up a new strand of the background color after working across the door, and then again after working across the window? Do you remember how many strands of the background color it took to make one house? Thanks so much!! ~ Jennifer @dianne
By the way, I should have mentioned that my question is regarding the Village Scarf! Thank you (to anyone who might be able to help)!
@Melissa_J This post has saved me on the Village Scarf project!!! Your organizational explanation and tools are invaluable. I will be duplicating your process exactly. Thank you SO MUCH! 
Hi Jennifer, how fun you are making a wall hanging also! I did use a new piece of yarn for every little window and chimney and spent a ton of time weaving in ends - almost as much as knitting! (at least if felt that way I read another post from someone who carried strands across and I plan to try that next time. I think I used 3 strands to knit the background color for each house. Enjoy!
So glad it helped. That’s why I posted it!
I did intarsia for the door and window. I just wanted to stay with the same thing. It does give a few more ends to weave it. I usually do my knitting in the evening. I’m retired, so I save my finishing projects (or with the Village Scarf, the prep work) for during the day. That way it feels more like a different process and it doesn’t eat into my knitting time.
I plotted my house out to see where I would use the different lengths of yarn. There were 3 for the house, the door, the window, 2 for the roof and 2 or 3 for the sky, depending on whether it was an end house or not.
I found the window used about 1 yard of yarn, and then based my other lengths off of that. Though I totally miscalculated and cut twice as much as I needed for the first row. That’s okay, I saved them for my second cushion!
Hi, all. Finally(!) started on the Watercolor cowl yesterday. In typical fashion, I didn’t swatch but I know I’m a “loose” knitter so I used a size 5 needle. Now I’m 9 squares (3rows) in, and I checked my gauge. Row gauge is spot on (32 rounds for 4”). I’m only getting 20 stitches per 4”, not the 24 stitches that the pattern says. How can we get 9.25” height with only 47 stitches cast on (even accounting for the I-cord edge)? Seems like 48 stitches would be 8 inches although even my 47 sts are ~9”? What am I not understanding?
A HUGE thank you to all who participated in our Kaffe-along! It’s been so much fun seeing how creative everyone got with the patterns and techniques! We are also happy to announce our Kaffe-along 2021 winners here: Kaffe-along Celebration
We want to send a major congratulations to our Lounge winners @robincomingore and @Dinah23 !! I’ll reach out to both of you to get your mailing addresses for some sweet Rowan prizes soon to be headed your way 
And just because the official KAL is over doesn’t mean we aren’t all still working our way through these patterns! Keep posing photos, asking questions, and most importantly: keep knitting!
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Congratulations to the winners
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Oh I really like this. I love making throws. How did you double the size please.
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Beautiful.
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Hi - if you look at the throw cityscape grid e.g. where there is a block with 10 stitches by 12 rows, I am making the block 20 stitches by 24 rows. This way I will get to use up most of the yarn and have a throw that covers most of the body. It is rather warm to knit - I end up wearing just a cami it’s so warm - fortunate it is cold here 
definitely not a summer project. Of course this is taking up twice the time I have two more evenings to go before doing the edging…
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So you’re just doubling the the stitches of each row and double the row count, correct?
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Yes exactly
I know I am too late finishing for this knit-a-long, but I love this throw so much. Now to steek and knit the borders!
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That’s just fantastic! I can’t wait to see the border…
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Ta-da! I have finished the coloured part of the throw, but I still have quite a few ends to darn in, blocking, and then the border. But now I am having trouble deciding what colour would make the best border…
[the messy looking points will look much better the they are darned in!!]
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Just two words: It’s beautiful!
Thank you!