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Resistance was futile

Posted on | April 2, 2007 | 10 Comments

Sometimes there’s a project wtih an allure so strong, colors so bright, construction so simple yet fascinating, that it doesn’t matter if you have ninety-eleven projects already on the needles, you simply MUST cast on! 

Such is how I feel about the Chevron Scarf.  I mean, check out those photos!  Doesn’t that make you want to knit one?  I love the whole philosophy behind it – take two clashing balls of sock yarn, throw them together and see what comes out!  I dug around in the stash and found these two balls of Koigu.

The top ball is a souvenir from our trip to Memphis last summer; the bottom ball is one of two that I won in a contest from Deb (thanks again, Deb!).  Here’s how it’s knitting up:

Rather serpentine, isn’t it?  Here’s what the back looks like:

I love it.  It’s 27 inches long and I’ve used less than half of the yarn.  I have two more balls in case it runs short, but I think it’ll be long enough just using the two.  I hope so because I want to make another!  And another!  And they’ll tell two friends and they’ll tell two friends and so on…and so on….and so on!  Ahem.

If *you* want to make one, you can find a pattern here.  Domesticat said her scarf was narrow, so I modified the pattern to make it a bit wider.  This is how I’m knitting it -

Cast on 46 stitches on US size 3 needles (3.25 mm)

Row 1:  [k6, yo, k1, yo, k6, double decrease (slip two stitches together as if to knit, knit one stitch, pass slipped stitches over)], repeat once, end k6, yo, k1, yo, k7

Row 2:  purl 2tog through back loop (slip two stitches one at a time as if to knit, place stitches back on left needle keeping them twisted, insert right needle into two stitches from front to back and purl them together.  If my instructions have you totally confused, you can watch a video here.  This step is important.  I didn’t think it was and one side of my scarf is wonky.  Not so wonky that I’ll rip out 27 inches to fix it, but I should’ve taken the time to learn how to do it right.  Doh!), purl across to the last two stitches, purl 2tog.

Repeat those two rows – easy peasy!  I’m alternating the colors every two rows for awhile, and then every four rows for wider stripes to shake it up a bit, then back to two, etc. The colors keep it interesting, the pattern is simple, the rows just fly by and it lays flat! 

One more picture…just because. 

Thank you for all your nice comments about my pictures!  I love my camera and to take pictures and since joining Maryse‘s Picture-a-day flickr group, I’ve started taking many more pictures and playing around with the different macros, camera angles, etc.  SB likes to tease me that I have a macro for everything, as in “Oh, are you using the scarf-on-the-card-playing-table macro?”  I should’ve busted out my “kickin-SB’s-rear-in-Canasta” macro and taken a shot of our score card, but I’m too nice to do such a thing.  Heh.

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