Thursday, December 08, 2005

Super Fuzzy Diagonally Striped Scarf

Super Fuzzy Diagonally Striped Scarf

Materials: Patons Divine 142 yards/129 metres per ball…bulky weight
In colors Amethyst Allure and Night Sky 1 ball of each
Any bulky yarn will be fine as a substitute, it just might not be as super fuzzy!

Gauge is not too important with this scarf...
If you want to use a smaller weight of a yarn then use smaller needles and keep increasing until its at the width you like!
Size 8mm/11us straight needles

Notes: Inc- increase one stitch… the method I used was knit through the front and then the back of the same stitch, but any method that works for you would suffice.
Dec- decrease one stitch… I used Knit 2 together
This scarf is knit in garter stitch (knit both sides) you can do stocking knit or a mix of stitches depending on which look you like.


Pattern:

Start with the MC (this will be the night sky) and cast on 2 stitches
1st row- Knit these 2 stitches
2nd row- Do an increase on both stitches
3rd row- Knit (all odd # rows from now on, knit)
4th row- Inc on first and the last stitch of the row
6th row- Continue doing the inc’s on first and last stitches until you have 20 stitches on your needle (or you reach the desired width you would like your scarf) the width is one of the sides of the triangle you are knitting not the stitches on your needle.
20th row- Change to the CC (amethyst allure) and inc on first stitch and decrease on last stitch
21st row- Knit across (once again within the stripes all odd # rows just knit across)
22nd row- Inc first stitch and dec last stitch of row (twist the MC with the CC at start of row to carry it up the side of scarf, LOOSLEY)
24th row- Change back to MC and continue the striping with the increases and decreases still on even rows
Continue changing colors every four rows until there are 48 stripes ending with a MC stripe (or it’s reached your own desired length)
210th row- Change to the CC and dec both sides of row
211th row- Knit row
212th row- dec both sides of row
Continue in this pattern until there is 1 stitch left on needle cut yarn and pull through stitch
Sew in loose yarn ends (starting tail and ending tail can be used as fringe!)

If you want you can crochet around the edge of the scarf to cover the yarn that was carried up the side of the scarf, but that is up to you.

Fringe: Wrap the remaining yarn (do both colors separately) 28 times around cardboard that is 9 inches long and then cut the one side, so there is 28 stands (doubled) of each color. Then attach the fringe with a crochet hook to the corresponding end (MC with MC, CC with CC)

Written by Christy Snell

3 Comments:

Anonymous Dorothy said...

Once again you have shared a great pattern. My granddaughters will love wearing one of these scarves this winter. Thanks for being so generous in sharing your patterns with all of us.

9:19 AM  
Anonymous Renee said...

I Love all your work, you are very talented
thanks for sharing such beautiful stuff.

8:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Very cool design! Useful information. Go on! »

9:41 PM  

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