Scarflets

Sarah

While I think I'd be bored to tears if I had to knit a bunch of scarves for holiday gifts, I have happily cranked out a couple of scarflets over the past couple of days.

This one is a little keyhole scarflet, and it's probably just about a yard long. I don't have a definite giftee in mind, but I may give this or something like it to the teacher I've been observing, as I've really learned a lot by sitting in on her class, and she's been really generous with her time.

If you're curious, I used a version of brioche stitch called "patent knitting" which Laura described here. To make the keyhole, I knit the center stitches in garter stitch for a couple of rows, bound a few off then cast on the same number in the following row, knit a few more rows with those center stitches in garter stitch, then resumed normal programming over the whole thing. The only reason I changed the center stitches to garter was to keep the area around the keyhole more tidy -- if you're doing a keyhole scarf in a different stitch, this may not be necessary.

Comments

[Suzanne V. (Yarnhog)]

The second sweater I ever made was done in a stitch called French Patent that looked just like that. Little did I know it would stretch (sideways) so much that the sweater ended up big enough for three of me. It was the 80s, though, so I was right in fashion.

[Oiyi]

It's definitely a cute little scarf for a gift.

[Rita]

Can you please post the details of yarns required to knit the scarflet?

Many thanks