My sister called me up in mid-September and said that the weather conditions in Toronto already required winter coats. And then she requested for a scarf.

“Sure, of course. Let me email you some patterns so you can pick which designs you like. What color are you thinking of?” (imagination goes wild with heavily cabled patterns in reds, pinks, and other jewel tones)

“Oh, black, brown, or dark gray.”

“Seriously? But if your clothes are already in that color scheme, don’t you want your scarf to have some color to punch up your outfit?” (I mean, seriously, knitting with black yarn ain’t fun)

“Yea… but if the scarf is black then it’ll go with everything I own..”

“Well, I’ve got really really dark purple. Like, grape. It’s almost black. How about cream white? Can we settle for cream white?” (hello? color? hello?)

And then, before she told me which scarf designs she liked, I went ahead and knit her the Circles Scarf from “Knitting New Scarves”.

Then I sent her the link to Lynn Barr’s “Knitting New Scarves” and she liked it.

“I really like the Gathered Scarf too” (and also the Boteh scarf, but I don’t crochet, so that automatically disqualifies)

“Oh really? Then you’ll get that one as well. Color choice?” (thinking now that I’ve shown her that cream and gray looks well together as a neutral color combo, she may want to be adventurous with her second color choice)

“Black.”

Well, I guess in the end, she wants what she wants.