Yesterday I decided to do what I could to finish the Road Trip scarf I had begun work on.

I was using Preminer Yarns Peaches and Cream Pop color way which consists of a peachy off-white, peach, and pink. When I had run out of yarn from the first skein, I was crocheting with the pink, and I decided that rather than switching to the next color in the sequence (the peachy off-white) I wanted to continue and finish with the pink.

My problem?

The center of the skein starts with the peachy off-white which is then followed by peach:

Getting to the pink was not going to be easy, and had the potential to be very messy and result in a tangled skein of yarn.

I needed a solution, and the solution I hit on was to wind the yarn around a nostepinne that would allow me to get to the pink while keeping the peachy off-white and peach tidy and in the same order they were in on the skein.

Using an empty M&M container I had purchased just for this purpose:

I secured the tail end of the inside of the skein by clamping it in the lid of the M&Ms container and began winding the yarn.

Soon I had all of the peachy off-white wound around the nostepinne:

Happy with my progress, I continued winding the peach until I reached the pink:

Having reached the color I wanted to use, I cut the yarn where the peach met the pink, got out my 5.5 mm hook, and finished crocheting the scarf, opting for a simpler, less bulky edge than the one called for in the original pattern:

Then I laid out the scarf an made a few six-flowers as a starting point for tricking it out:

Satisfied with my progress on the scarf, I then turned my attention to the partially completed power flower motifs that have captivated me and won’t let me go.

I finished work on four them:

and then got this group photo of some of the motifs I have manage to finish:

Then, with the sun about to set on my day, I got out three nostepinnes:

and made this video:

which resulted in this cute little center pull skein of Red Heart Super Saver grape fizz:

As with so many of my crochet adventures, I don’t know exactly where this adventure will lead, but I will continue to follow the path head of me, one stitch at a time.

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