This one goes out to my good friend Lara, currently sorting thousands of pounds of fire-recovery seed for the BLM in Las Vegas.This is a basic garter stitch scarf with a pleasant twist. Some people call it the caterpillar scarf – I think, if we're going with bug analogies, that it looks a bit more like a centipede, but of course you could vary the bobble length and/or the distance between bobbles very easily.
**An important note: I am not the designer of this pattern! The scarf was given to me, and I think that I have figured out how to make it, but I certainly can claim no credit for how cool it is!**
The pattern is written for any worsted weight yarn, although single ply seems to work the best. My scarf in the picture above, which was knit for me by Síle Convery of knit-one-one, is Malabrigo Olive. It was taught in last month's beginner knitting class at knit-one-one!
YARN: Worsted weight, 1 skein
NEEDLES: #9
GAUGE: Kinda something like 12 sts / 10 cm. Hey, it's a scarf.
abbreviations:
p = purl
co = cast on
bo = bind off
sts = stitches
RS = right side
WS = wrong side
Cast On: 12 sts in the long tail method (for a 4" wide scarf)
Row 1 (WS): k 12. turn knitting.
Row 2 (RS): co 6 sts (using knitted cast on*), and immediately bind all 6 sts off**, k 12, turn knitting. (12 sts remain)
Row 3: co 6 sts (using knitted cast on) and immediately bind off 6 sts, k12 (12 sts remain)
Row 4: k all
Row 5: k all
Row 6: k all
Row 7: k all
*With the knitted cast on, you are working from left to right, vs standard knitting which is right to left, so you must turn the knitting first before casting on the stitches. Technically, they will "belong" to the row before.)
** Here you return to knitting normally, from right to left. Get it? Cast on left to right, then WITHOUT TURNING YOUR KNITTING begin binding off again.
Repeat Rows 2-7 for bobble pattern, until the scarf is as long as you want it to be.
When it's long enough, or when you've almost run out of yarn, at your next RS row:
RS: co 6 sts (using knitted cast on) and immediately bind off 6 sts, k12 (12 sts remain)
WS: co 6 sts (using knitted cast on) and immediately bind off 6 sts, k12 (12 sts remain)
RS: bind off all sts
Finishing: weave in your two loose tails and voíla. Bobble scarf!
Here's another picture:
2 comments:
Congratulations Emily. The blog is great and I am about to send it off to everyone I know! And I am soo impressed at how quickly you jumped on the idea--wow.
I stumbled into your blog from yarn-a-go-go and was quite impressed. I am also a new blogger. The scarf pattern is great, I'm going to give it a try. I also live in the east bay and had never heard of knitoneone until reading your blog. I'm going to check it out. There are a couple of friends that I know would be interested.
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