@knitfroggy: Well, I finished the hat that I mentioned earlier, and I’ve been working on the matching scarf for quite a while now. It’s my own variation of this scarf but made with a self-striping, thick-and-thin yarn I bought in Argentina, and instead of the stripes being only two rows, I have a few big blocks of each color-type. With only two rows, you couldn’t tell that it was even two different yarns because the colors of the self-stripe are so similar.
It’s cute, the hat is stockinette, and the scarf is a 1×1 rib, so they look like the same pattern, but the scarf has a bit more weight to it, and it’s interchangeable, so there’s no front and back.
I was doing it on some long metal straight needles (size 8) and I finally got a circular bamboo one. It’s been going MUCH more quickly (and more fun) since then. I’m pretty sure I got the suggestion of using circular needles even for non-circular projects. So, THANK YOU!! :D