Lacy Scarf

LACY SCARF

Materials: 1 skein Douceur et Soie, or Edna from Good Karma Farm, or any fingering weight, about 225 - 500 yards

size 6 needles, or whatever gives you a lacy fabric

Gauge: I don't remember what the gauge was for Douceur et Soie, but it doesn't really matter. For you purists out there, I'm getting 6 sts per inch measured over stockinette stitch using Edna.

Finished measurement: 8 inches wide x 48 inches long or whatever length you want it

Directions: Cast on 52 stitches. Work in lace pattern until you have just enough yarn to bind off with (if possible, end with row 8 of the lace pattern). Bind off loosely knitwise.

This will make a scarf that is scalloped on one end and flat across the bound off end. To make both ends scalloped, knit two halves and graft them together, or do a three-needle bind off, if you don't mind the little seam-like thing on the back of your neck.

Lace pattern:

Row 1: Slip 1 as if to knit, *yo, k3, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, yo, k1; repeat from * to last st, k1. (the first and last stitches are selvage stitches)

Row 2 and every even-numbered row: Slip 1, purl across.

Row 3: Slip 1 as if to knit, *k1, yo, k2, sl1, k2tog, psso, k2, yo, k2; repeat from * to last st, k1.

Row 5: Slip 1 as if to knit, *k2, yo, k1, sl1, k2tog, psso, k1, yo, k3; repeat from * to last st, k1.

Row 7: Slip 1 as if to knit, *k3, yo, sl1, k2tog, psso, yo, k4; repeat from * to last st, k1.

Row 8: Slip 1, purl across.

Repeat rows 1 through 8 for Lace pattern.