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Scooby Doo Knits
Dear Kay,
Coming into the home stretch on the Rhinebeck Rectangle, and my pre-nostalgia for this project has already overwhelmed me. Oh, Spring Fever rectangle thingy by Amy Miller! You were with me on many phone calls, that binge-watch of The Americans, that midnight trip to the hospital that ended up being no big deal but at least I got to worry-knit through the freaky bit. I am going to miss you so much that I may make another one of you. While wearing the one I just made.
In my last post, I described this weighty worsted wrap as a scanket: scarf + blanket. Much derision over calling it a scanket! Suggestions that it sounds like skank, which most definitely IS a word in the U.S.
It’s not skankette, y’all! There’s a whole Ravelry page of options for that. It’s scanket: rhymes with blanket.
For those in search of name ideas for their weirdly proportioned knitting projects, here is a recap of the names suggested as better than scanket.
Blanket + Scarf = Blankarf.
Or Barf.
Blanket Scarf.
Stole.
Blanket + Scarf = Blarf.
Scarf.
Wrap.
Wrap + Blanket = Wrapet.
Scarf + Wrap = Scarap.
Wrap + Scarf = Wrarf.
Mega Scarf.
Shawl + Scarf = Schawl. Scharf.
Scarf + Throw = Scrow.
Blankie.
Scarf + Shawl = Scrawl.
If Scooby Doo were a knitter . . .
Love,
Ann
Blarf made me laugh yesterday, and still makes me laugh this morning.
Blarf is my favorite!
Sometimes the simple posts the best. Reminds me of an extremely silly email exchange i had decades ago. Thanks for the double.
Wish I were meeting u at Rhinebeck. ENJOY!
Also, Blap.
Whatever you call it, it’s a thing of great beauty.
What I thought was s & w from shawl and you havea swanket and isn’t it swank?
Go out in left field. Woobie. (Like the one in the movie Mr. Mom)
Yes! My husband and I still use the term “woobie” (although for us it’s morphed to mean our body pillows).
I love this, and given its use while being knit!
When I got to the end I went back and read all the options in a Scooby voice…thank you for my morning laugh!
It’s an adult ‘lovey’. Like Linus’ security blanket
Being a knitter and a poet and a Scooby-Doo fan,i like scrawl the best…
Not enough riffing on stole. Or Throw. Internet full of knitting Throles. Stolket. Blanket + Throw = Blow. No, that’s something else.
Looks delish.
Stephen West has a pattern called Chevron Shlanket, with shawl + blanket = shlanket. Just another option to throw into the ring.
You had me at Rhinebeck Rectangle.
Got a knitter friend who is knitting a slanket…
Love all the other suggestions. Either way, its just gorgeous
Oh dear, I seem to have enough touched a nerve with my scanket comment. Oops
LOL! I think we definitely need to cook up a Skankette pattern, because I’d be curious to see what that would be.
and the cats? sitting there, hanging out without an intro?
I know it’s maybe hard to tell, but they are doing their best Scooby Doo imitations.
Cats don’t need names. They know who they are.
Keep knitting. Whatever it is, it isn’t long enough to keep both you and the cats warm at the same time. P.S.: Mr. Wrarf served about the Enterprise-D.
er — “…ABOARD the Enterprise-D.”
mine became the Striped Scarf of Doom as it took so long… sock weight yarn… in knitting? never again…
I bet your drape is gorgeous. This worsted weight is right on the line between Drape and Drag! Hoping for a cold winter . . .
OMG! Has everyone seen the 10/3 New Yorker?? All the little teeny cartoons in the midst of pages are ALL about knitting!!! Go knitting!
Scarket?