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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Red Scarf at Night

This is my version of a Chevron based scarf. I knit it up using different colors of Cascade 220 yarn, approximately 1 1/2 skeins in all. You can knit it with one main color and one contrasting color, or many contrasting colors! The sky's the limit!



Red Scarf at Night

by Elspeth McKee
copyright 2010


Materials:

1 1/2 balls of Cascade 220 wool in one or more colors.
size 9 (U.S.) needles
tapestry needle

Stitches:

KFB - knit into the front and the back of the same stitch, increasing by one
K2tog - put the needle into the 2 next stitches, and knit them both at the same time together

Directions:

Cast on 24 stitches.

Knit 4 rows with the main color.

Attach the contrasting color and follow this pattern:

row 1:
K3, (K2tog x 3), (KFB x 3), (K2tog x 3), K3

row 2:
K3, purl to last 3 stitches, K3

Bring the main color to the top and follow this pattern:

row 1:
Knit

row 2:
K3, purl to last 3 stitches, K3

repeat the 4 pattern rows, knitting 2 rows in each color until the scarf is as long as you like or you are about to run out of yarn.

Knit 4 rows and bind off.

Weave in all ends and block as desired.