While I had a lovely birthday celebration of my 45th birthday last week, it was also my older sister's birthday on Monday 9/12. We had a terrific sister day, with breakfast, facials, and lots of fun shopping together.
And I gave her a knitted gift that I really truly intended to finish in time for her birthday LAST year, but just didn't get it done.
I made a black mohair scarf blended with shiny neon accent colors, which is just right for her. And it's finally finished!
I used a single row reversible scarf pattern (and another blog post about it) from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee a.k.a. Yarn Harlot who is surely one of my favorite knitting bloggers.
Progession in photographs:
First photographed on August 10, 2010 – getting under way:
Photographed on August 28, 2010 – about halfway done – two weeks of knitting time left before the birthday deadline:
and again on September 3rd in the sunshine at our Keystone house:
This yarn is hard to photograph because of the shiny neon accent yard mixed with the fuzzy black mohair:
And a year later – finally finished!
The day between my sister's birthday and mine was a stormy rainy day, ending with this beautiful double rainbow over Eldorado Canyon that really looks like it ends in my yard:
Thoughts In Random Patterns 
Lovely pattern. Easy traveling. Lovely yarn. Happy birthday to you and Martha. Knit on!