SHARING SOME CRAFT WORK
I have been pursuing my art interests
during the hiatus in posts. But something else I have been doing is a little
knitting.
I more or less stopped knitting several
years ago partly because I have arthritis in my wrists and partly because I was
putting all my time into the art course at The Learning Connexion.
In the past year, though, I have taken up
my needles and knitted some small projects-- several pairs of two needle bed
socks, finished a small child's cardigan I had started 5 years ago, and four
scarves.
Three of the scarves were knitted from that
novelty ribbon type yarn that gives you a ruffled scarf while the fourth was
from cotton yarn.
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| I scanned the scarf. On the right I stretched it so you could see the stitches |
I was quite pleased with the fourth scarf
and am giving you the pattern that I devised.
Sparkle Scarf
This is a long scarf in black, grey and a
paler grey yarn with sequins.
You need 1x fifty gram ball each of black
cotton, grey cotton and paler grey and silver novelty yarn. My knitting cotton was a cotton and acrylic
mix.
Use a 5 mm circular needle. Mine has bamboo
ends so the slithery yarn didn't slip off.
The finished scarf was 180 cm long and
about 6 cm wide. Cast on more stitches if you want a longer scarf. You will
have enough yarn to do this.
The scarf is very simple to make as it is
all in knit stitch. The four rows of knit 2 together and yarn overs, to make the
scarf slightly lacy, are the only parts you need to pay attention to. The only
other point to note is that when knitting some rows you start from the opposite
end, easy to do when you are using circular needles.
Using black cast on loosely 180 stitches,
1 black,
knit to end of row, turn
2 black,
knit to end of row
3 grey,
start from opposite end, knit 4, (K2tog, yarn over) repeat to last 4 stitches,
knit 4, turn
4 grey,
knit all the stitches and yarn overs to end of row
5 fancy
yarn, start from the opposite end, knit to end, turn
6 fancy
yarn, knit to end
7 black,
knit to end, turn
8 black,
knit to end
9 grey,
start at opposite end, knit 4, (K2tog, yarn over) repeat to last 4 stitches,
knit 4, turn
10 grey, knit all the stitches and yarn
overs to end of row
11 fancy
yarn, start at opposite end, knit to end, turn
12, 13, 14 fancy yarn, knit to end of row,
turn
15 grey,
start at the opposite end, knit to end of row, turn
16 grey,
knit to end of row
17 black,
start at opposite end, knit 4, (K2tog, yarn over) repeat to last 4 stitches,
knit 4, turn
18 black,
knit to end, turn
19 fancy
yarn, knit to end, turn
20 fancy
yarn, knit to end
21 grey,
start at opposite end, knit to end of row, turn
22 grey,
knit to end of row
23 black,
start at opposite end, (K2tog, yarn over) repeat to last 4 stitches, knit 4, turn
24 black,
knit to end
Cast off very loosely using the black yarn
If you twist the yarns at the ends each
time you change colour you can carry them along so the ends of the scarf are
very neat.
Use a bodkin (a special wool needle) or a
crochet hook to work the ends of the yarns in so they are secure and cannot be
seen.
The ends of the scarf could be finished
with a fringe.
