Easy Scarf Pattern

Several years ago, my cousin Nina orally gave me a quick and easy scarf pattern.  Sharon, her mother, recently told me she found the pattern in "Work Basket" a magazine that is no longer published.  Usually knit with a worsted weight yarn and size seven needle, this scarf is perfect for young children as the end flaps pull through a loop and lock together. And uses only one skein of yarn. A few days ago, as I pondered on what to knit, I thought that using a sport weight wool and size two needles this same pattern might work up into a head band.  And it worked.

Knit with Brown Sheep Home Spun Sport Weight and size two needles worked up a perfect headband

 

To knit this scarf cast on three stitches.  Increase one stitch at the beginning of every row until you have thirty stitches on your needle.  Now, decrease one stitch at the beginning of every row until ten stitches remain.

To knit this scarf cast on three stitches.  Increase one stitch at the beginning of every row until you have thirty stitches on your needle.  Now, decrease one stitch at the beginning of every row until ten stitches remain.

Knit the first stitch, slip the next stitch on to a cable needle and knit the next stitch.  Continue this until five stitches are knit and five are held in back of your work on the cable needle.  Knit ten rows even across the stitches on your needle, and break the yarn.  Attach the yarn to the first stitch on your cable needle and work ten rows even.  Now knit the first stitch from the needle, the second stitch from the cable needle until the ten stitches have been worked and are all back onto the working needle.

Increase on stitch at the beginning of each row until you again have thirty stitches and work even for desired length.

 Decrease one stitch at the beginning of each row until there are ten stitches remaining.  Again knit the first stitch, and slip the second stitch onto a cable needle, knit the third stitch and slip the fourth onto a cable needle.  Continue until there are five stitches on the needle and five stitches held to the back of the work on the cable needle.

Work these stitches the same as you did before, and then Increase one stitch at the beginning of every row until you have thirty stitches.  Now decrease on stitch every row until there are three stitches remaining.  Bind off these three stitches and weave in all ends.


NOTE:  I like to slip the first stitch before Increasing or decreasing to give the scarf a smoother edge.

I have a cousin who never looks at a pattern.  She just picks up her needles and knits until the fabric becomes what it is going to be.  Ahhh.....just to be knitting.  She has knit up interesting things.

I feel compelled to knit and often I find myself wondering what to do next.  Yes, there is always hats, and mittens, socks, but I have a stash of left over sock yarn and I am thinking scarf.  Scarfs are fun, and there are just so many options of design to choose from.

It began with a skein of Plymouth Happy Feet sock yarn.  I casted on an even number of stitches and working the moss stitch I began.

The Moss stitch


The moss stitch is a two stitch four row repeat as follows.

Row 1:  K1, P1 to end                          
Row 2:  P1, K1 to end
Row 3:  P1, K1 to end
Row 4:  K1, P1 to end

I came to the end of the skein.  I went to my stash and picked out all the left over yarn from the socks I knit this past winter, and picking another yarn continued.  I like knitting this scarf, and there are rules.  I make them up as I go, and change them when ever I want.

The rules for this scarf  are these:  It was to be continued in the moss stitch through out.  There are no repeats of any of the yarn.  And it has to be long.