Adventures in Babysitting

I caught one of the most awesome 80's movies ever, Adventures in Babysitting, on TV yesterday.  It was already about halfway through so I missed Elisabeth Shue dancing her heart out to "And Then He Kissed Me".  (Yes, I checked.  Yes, it's Elisabeth with an s.)  Never mind that she was a 24 who totally looked her age year old playing a 17 year old.  It's still a great movie.

So the movie was on, and I was in the process of ripping out an infinity scarf that I decided needed to be longer, when I looked up and realized that Elisabeth She is wearing a really sweet, really long rainbow scarf through most of the movie.  It's amazing.  Observe:

 

I searched through Ravelry and did some Google-fu, but came up with nothing in the way of a pattern for it.  Looks easy enough, probably stockinette knit in the round.  The problem will be finding the right weight yarn in the right colors.  I'm thinking of using Knit Picks Shine Sport cotton yarn, since it's sport weight and the colors seem right, but blerggggggahhhh.... it's cotton and that's so not my favorite thing. 

Naturally Caron will probably have the right colors, but having used it before I'm thinking it'll be way too shiny to be a proper Adventures in babysitting scarf.  There's always Vanna's Choice, which really should be called Last Choice because it makes my fingers cry.  My favorite yarn ever ever EVER Malabrigo definitely has all the colors, but it may be more than I'm willing to spend and they are kettle dyed, so not true solids like I need.

I actually have some of everything mentioned, so a small sample is going on my needles so I can get to work writing up the stitch numbers for the pattern.  I can worry about the colors later.   Maybe I'll make it to WonderCon as Chris Parker this year.  Where does one find a nice 80's style beige trench coat like that anyway?

Halter Part 2

Just in time to wear for an unplanned trip to Las Vegas during an especially sunny couple of days, I finished the halter top I was working on.  I truly am in love with it.  So in love with it that I'll probably make it in another color with just a couple of very slight modifications from this one.

It was mindless tv knitting (meaning I could knit and watch tv and not really pay much attention and still get it right) until I got to the increases.  Then I got slightly confused on the increase here, knit in pattern, increase there simply because in my head it's all counting in rhythm and the increases (and subsequent decreases) messed with the sing-song quality of my count rhythm and slowed me down.  A lot.  That's my bad though, the pattern in no way should try to anticipate how much of an airhead I can be.

It's very comfortable, makes me look thin (yay!) and more top heavy than I actually am (double yay!) and after living with it for about a week now, the color couldn't be prettier.  The actual fabric of it is a little thicker then I'd like for a summer top, but it's only a slight complaint and isn't really that big of a deal.

Now onto the next project.