WIP: Sofia's scarf
When I first saw Sophie Scarf I thought how cute! But then everything looks cute on PetiteKnit, which is one of the reasons for her success, and I was perfectly aware it wouldn't look that good on me. Then, copycat patterns started appearing everywhere: a stockinette stitch version, a ribbed one, one with a pretty motif on the tips, and so on. And every time I thought, they're super cute on cute, young and thin women, but I'm neither of those things. But you know how it goes... it's like ads: no matter how annoying they're, enough repetition and you end up getting tempted. I still wasn't tempted until recently a very similar pattern came out. I got curious about the differences between these two patterns for 2 reasons: (1) altering such an extremely simple pattern is not easy and I wanted to know how that gets done, (2) I also wanted to check how much changes you need to do in a pattern to avoid being accused of plagiarism. I was surprised at how differe...