First HandSpun knitted item

Somewhat rustic in appearance, but its all my own work.  This item started out life as a bag of fluff, and I spun it, washed it, and knitted it into this.  So I'm a proud mama even if it isn't perfect.  Perhaps BECAUSE its not perfect. 

This is made from 100% merino.  I had a bag of mixed shades of blue and turquoise and spun up two skeins of just over 100g each... allowing for a lot of breakages, and bits of fluff that ended up on the floor rather than in the yarn.  I believe the skeins were already shown off in an earlier post, but here is the relevant skein again. 

I wasn't sure quite how far the yarn would go when knitted since its rather uneven in thickness (that's quite an understatement actually) so I knitted it up as Hitchhiker which is a pattern you can stop more or less anywhere depending on when your yarn runs out.  As it happens, my yarn managed to run out five stitches from the end of the cast off and a bit of additional hand spun from a rejected attempt was added to eke it out.  Said rejected attempt was from the same bag of fibre so its not obvious what I did. 

The finished item is rather small, and quite thick... not very drapey and definitely an outdoor scarf not an indoor accessory but it seems to me that its still a statement of style.

 The original pattern is supposed to have 42 teeth and be done in sock yarn.. This one has sixteen and a bit teeth and is done in "heaven knows what weight", but its worked out OK and will work well in the neck of my new coat. 

Overall I'm pleased with it.  Whilst the colours don't do quite what I envisaged they should when knitted up, its close enough for me to feel that I have produced something roughly similar to the intended outcome, which for a first attempt, isn't too bad.

The other ball of yarn, which is more blue toned, is still waiting to be knitted up, along with a natural coloured ball that I spun just before Christmas.  I might stripe those though so I get a larger finished item. 

PS.  I promise I'm not trying to start a Turquoise SWAP with all these turquoise based projects.  I'll try and make sure my next post includes something non-turquoise.  :)