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September 09, 2005
Ripple scarf
This week, Jen, who was working on the Wool-ease Tiles throw a few weeks ago, surprised us by bring knit mittens to work on and a crocheted scarf she had completed. The scarf was her first crochet project ever and it looks fabulous.
It is similar to this scarf.
They are both crocheted length-wise, meaning you are crocheting across a LOT of stitches each row. But it doesn't take many rows before you have a fantastic scarf. The nice thing about striped scarfs worked this way is that at the end of each row, you can simply cut the yarn and attach new yarn and voila, you have fringe!
Jen's scarf has a little twist to the plain striped scarf. It is done in a rippled, or chevron, pattern like these scarves.
The mittens Jen's working on are knit in the round, using double-pointed needles, so there is no seam. Jen just taught herself how to do this from googling for instructions. I find double-pointed needles a little awkward to use so I usually knit things in the round with one very long needle using the "magic loop" method. To each her own! Hopefully she'll bring them back when they're finished and I can take a picture of the whole set.
Posted by lauren at September 9, 2005 12:19 PM
Comments
I love scarves that are done length-wise. This one looks awesome!
Posted by: Cathi at September 9, 2005 03:49 PM
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