My scarf

On a whim, I decided to treat myself to some lovely Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk yarn from my LYS. It's a lovely blue-green and very soft yarn that would be wonderful for a scarf.
With the weather turning very cold, I decided it was past time to cast on. So I started knitting, worked a few inches and then put my lovely, soft scarf-to-be on my neck. It felt funny...almost, well, itchy. But its a very soft alpaca/silk yarn...how can it be itchy? Maybe it's the stitch? So I switch over to stockinette, a nice flat stitch. Put it on my neck and...still itchy.
Maybe it is the yarn? Give it to a couple of family members with orders to put it on their necks. (It's a mark of how used to odd requests my family is that they didn't ask why?) They ooh-ed and ahh-ed over its softness and looked at me very strangely when I mentioned it's itchiness. They declared the yarn very soft and lovely and completely itch free.

So it's not the yarn...it's me. (insert a mental image of Lucy crying and you get a good idea of how I feel on the inside).