You know when some flavors, smells or sounds can bring back memories? The same often happens to me with my knitting. That's why I love buying yarn when I'm traveling (I can relive the memories over and over again while knitting with the yarn and then wearing it). And that's why I can't part with the woollen socks I knitted on our honeymoon, even though they already have holes in them and the white yarn has become discolored in an unlucky attempt at washing them. That's also what happened with this scarf. But now in a good way. I started this shawl when we were still trying to decide what to do with our cat Milla, and I knitted it to calm my nerves when we drove her to her new home. After that I couldn't touch the project at all. It brought back too many painful memories. So in the end I decided to unravel the whole thing and use the yarn for something else. However I liked the design and wanted to knit one after all so in January I started it a...