Binding Off

From the title of this post, you may be able to infer there's a happy ending for my sister's Christmas scarf. Christmas day, however, began like this:

My sister's comment: "Do you remember...when you gave me my afghan...and you still had it on the needles?!?" Yes. I remember, and so does my family! In my own defense, I was in college; she was graduating from high school, and I was almost finished with a soft, beautiful, feather-stitched afghan.

Two days after Christmas, though, her new scarf was off the needles...

and around her neck....

Needless to say, she was happy that I had taken the hint and used the yarn she had fawned over. Merry Christmas sis!