Show Me Your Knits: Looking Good

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Years ago, when I was in pharmacy school, I was doing an internship at the Kansas City Veteran's Hospital. I was working in the hospital's outpatient pharmacy and I think we were supposed to be handing medications out and working on our pharmacy counseling skills. There was this really old guy who kept saying, loudly and repeatedly, to me, "Ooh, you're looking good." Now, yes, I was younger, a bit slimmer, and had perkier body parts, but it still irks me that some old geezer can verbally harass you like that, even though you know he thought he was complimenting you somehow. Although, this was pre-Viagra days, so I suppose that I should give him props for having the interest in looking. Anyway, after seven or eight times of hearing "Looking good!" and "That girl is looking good!" and other derivatives, I probably rolled my eyes at the ickiness of the old man and went and got his medicine. At this point I realized that his medicines included about eight different eye drops for glaucoma and assorted eye problems. The man was probably blind as a bat, yet he said I was "looking good." The whole thing struck me as hysterical and now, years later, I still like to use this guys catch phrase, with his same intonation, whenever the situation warrants. If I'm dressed up to go out, I'm "looking good". The kid has a fedora on to go to the 7th grade dance? He's "looking good". My husband is strolling around in his tighty whities? He's "looking good". So, it is with great pride that I show you this bit of knitted lace, which when blocked, I can sincerely say, is "looking good". This pattern is called "Gothik Scarf" and it is knit out of Malabrigo sock yarn, which is not only looking good, but feeling good. That yarn is snuggly soft. The actual color is a much deeper red. I don't know why reds are so difficult to photograph and get a true color. This scarf was knit and mailed as part of a swap to a knitter in Australia, and now that it has arrived "down under", I can blog the finished product. Because the Malabrigo sock has such great yardage, I widened the pattern by an extra repeat, in hopes of making it a generous scarf. It blocked unexpectedly, though, much more lengthwise than widthwise, so it is very long and more scarf-like than shawl-like widthwise. I wasn't quite expecting it to block that way, but no matter. I think this scarf is "looking good".