Textured Scarf & Nubbly Triangle Scarf patterns

My husband went back to work today after being on vacation for a week and a half. I was hoping we'd get out of town for a few days but it didn't happen. I'm glad he's back to work. Now I can try to get caught up on things.

I did manage to finish one small spinning project. It was less than an ounce of Rambouillet dyed in greens and purples. Here's the 141 yard skein I got from the wool. Too little yardage to do much with. I'm considering combining some of my orphan skeins into one project to use them up.

I've been on a scarf kick. Two more scarves are finished. I've been going through my scrap box for inspiration.

I found a partial skein of Bernat Aspen (wool/acrylic blend). Cast on and knitted it up into a textured diagonal pattern that I made up as I went. It turned out quite nice.

Textured Turquoise Scarf
Size: 42" x 5.5"
2.2 oz worsted weight yarn (probably about 150 yards)
U.S. 10.5 needles (mine are old Bernat 7 mm size and not the usual 6.5 mm)

Cast on in multiples of 8 stitches. I used 20 stitches.
Work a couple of rows of garter stitch before starting pattern stitch.

Keep the first 2 stitches and last 2 stitches of the row in garter stitch (knit on RS and WS).
The vertical line in the following instructions sets off the edge stitches from the pattern.

Row 1: K2 | k4, p4, k4, p4 | k2. (RS)
Row 2: K2 | k4, p4, k4, p4 | k2. (WS)

Row 3: K2 | p2, k4, p4, k4, p2 | k2.
Row 4: K2 | k2, p4, k4, p4, k2 | k2.

Row 5: K2 | p4, k4, p4, k4 | k2.
Row 6: K2 | p4, k4, p4, k4 | k2.

Row 7: K2 | k2, p4, k4, p4, k2 | k2.
Row 8: K2 | p2, k4, p4, k4, p2 | k2.

Repeat Rows 1-8 for the pattern.
Work a couple of rows of garter stitch and bind off.

Want to make a wider scarf?
Add stitches in multiples of 8. When knitting the pattern above, repeat the bold directions one more time for every 8 stitches you add. (Clear as mud? Knitting the pattern above on 20 stitches? Knit as written. Knitting the pattern on 28 stitches? Knit the bold stitches once and then knit them once more to add in the extra 8 stitches. Does it make sense now?)

Can you see how the pattern progresses? You push the first 2 stitches after the edge over 2 on each right side row. On the wrong side, just knit or purl the stitch as it presents itself. This stitch pattern creates a scarf with no right or wrong side, it looks the same on both sides.

The second scarf came about from a partial skein of baby blue nubbly novelty yarn I picked up at the October Fiber Frolic on Saturday. I paired it with some blue baby yarn scraps. I cast on for a top down triangle scarf starting with the baby yarn and alternating with the nubbly yarn. The bumps gave a nice texture to the scarf. When the blue baby yarn ran out, I grabbed some white baby yarn. I liked the serendipitous way this scarf was developing. Of course, the white yarn ran out before I was done. I grabbed some white baby yarn with a shiny nylon ply, knit a garter stitch border and bound off. I thought I was done until I laid the scarf out flat. The edge curled up which it shouldn't have in garter stitch. What now? All the yarns I had used were synthetic and unblockable. (I didn't want to try to kill it with heat and melt the yarn.) So back to the leftover box I went. I found a small ball of another blue and worked a crocheted border to stabilize the edge. That took care of it!

Nubbly Triangle Scarf
Size: 38" x 20"
I used a total of 3 ounces of synthetic yarn--some baby (fingering weight) yarn and the other a nubbly novelty yarn.
U.S. 8 needles (5 mm)

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Cast on 5 stitches on size 8 needles.
Knit 1 row.

Knit 2, yo, k1, yo, k2. (right side)
Purl across. (wrong side)

Repeat these last two rows for the pattern. When it gets big enough, do a few rows of garter stitch (knit every row), then bind off loosely.

I cast on with the baby yarn and knit the first 3 rows before changing to the nubbly yarn. I alternated two rows of one yarn and then two rows of the second yarn.

After I bound off I did a crocheted wave edging in every other stitch across the shawl alternating sc, hdc, dc, treble, dc, hdc, sc with a chain 1 between each stitch. Start on the bottom edge of the shawl (right side up, of course).

Crocheted Wave Edging
Chain 3, skip 1 st, *hdc, ch 1, skip 1, dc, ch 1, skip 1, treble, ch 1, skip 1, dc, ch 1, skip 1, hdc, ch 1, skip 1, sc, ch 1, skip 1*. Repeat from * to * across but end with a sc in the last stitch.

© October 2007 Vicki Mikulak
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