The sunday before last the Washington Post printed a pattern for a ruffle scarf in the Sunday Source Section. Three people who know I knit pointed it out to me and said I should I make it. It looked like fun so I decided to take their advice! Here it is:
I started with one leftover ball of a textured TLC yarn, but then I ran out so I used a dark brown for the last row and casting off. (I don't know what brand of yarn it is. It's some cheep acrylic stuff I pulled out of the clearance bin at A.C. Moore.) I really think that the edging adds something so I'm really glad I ran out of the first yarn!
The pattern is really easy if you already know garter stitch and increasing! I'd post a link to the pattern but I think that you have to sign in to the Website, and it's so easy I'll just type it out:
On VERY LONG round needles (size 13 to 15) cast on 100 stitches of worsted weight yarn. On the first row, increase one into every stitch, therefore doubling the number of stitches. Knit the next row. Repeat this 4 times until you have 1600 stitches (100, 200, 400, 800, 1600). Then knit one more row and cast off! Easy!
Edit: Here's the link to the original article, apparently you don't have to sing in:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010502521.html These insturctions might be a little more clear.
Thanks rhiandmoi!
I feel I have to really stress the LONG round needles. I used size 13 needles and decided to make up the length by starting with 120 stitches. By the time I got to the last row before cast off my too short round needles gave out on me and I had to do some quick stitch rescue, then go out and buy another set I ended up with this nice little mess:
But it was still a really fun and fairly fast, it only took me 4 days! (say 8 or 9 hours including crisis management) If anyone Else dares to tackle this project I'd love to see the outcome!
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