Scarf style crap a-long

I joined the Scarf style knit a long last fall, submitting my Backyard Leaves. While that project has yet to be finished, I've managed to cast on and finish Blizzard, and last night, cast on for Bead of the Earth.



Do you see the problem? I'm probably going to rip this out and start over. Anyone have a suggested cast on method for this scarf? I wish that the book stated that a long tail cast on wouldn't work out for this particular pattern.

I went to Border's Saturday morning, meeting up with Michelle, expecting Wanda (but she had to work!), and met Mary Anne, Joanne, Sheila, and...um, DARN. Help, Michelle! I worked prodigiously on my Sock-pal-2-za sock, which I'm using Cherry Tree Hill yarn with the rib and cable sock pattern from interweave (Fall 2005). I've chosen, unwisely I might add, to have this sock pattern be my practice for cabling w/o a cable needle. EEK!! So...some cables are going the wrong way. Good thing I joined the beginner's group.



Joanne insisted that I take a pic of the beads I went to go purchase at Bead It!, which is right next door to Borders. She didn't believe that I would only buy the beads for the scarf... for some strange reason, she thinks that *I* have a problem with willpower. Huh.



Now I've started on an OSW for my best friend. It's a dusty rose/almost lavendar color, which I know she likes. It's Dive Cotton Club, with Crystal Palace Shimmer (white) as stripes b/c neither skein is large enough for an OSW.



Tomorrow, I've got to get needles for the Needle Exchange (sounds like a drug rehab program, no?) and some size 7 needles, 32" for my Rogue. We were supposed to cast on today... frustrating that you get gauge on the only size needle you DON"T have in 32" (ok, not the only, but the only ones between sizes 2-9).