I am sure that you have seen the very popular Caron Cake yarn that was released earlier last year. If you haven’t, it is a very long print worsted yarn made of 80% acrylic and 20% wool that is put up in a cake form of 383 yds or 350m. There are a few patterns that work for this style of yarn but I thought that the world could use one more so I bought one cake and made a very long (think almost super, 82” x 11.5” or 210cm x 30cm) scarf.
I wanted something light but warm that would go with a winter coat or work as a light wrap if needed. I also wanted to take advantage of the long colour changes so decided to work the scarf lengthwise rather than crosswise. I do that often with long scarfs or wraps as I would rather work a long cast on and off than many, many, many rows. Maybe it is just me (it is just me) but the work seems to go faster with fewer rows even though the number of stitches is likely close to the same. The scarf took about fourteen hours for me to knit and I knit at a medium fast speed.
The colour I bought was Boston Cream, a mixture of cream to taupe that reminded me of Saturday afternoon lattes, my favourite treat. You could make the scarf with any worsted weight yarn and still have a lovely accessory for winter.
The scarf is bordered with seed stitch for a no roll edge and the main section is a simple lace mesh that is just interesting enough to not be boring and still lets you knit and watch television or read. The pattern is posted on Ravelry and is linked above or through my pattern page and is free, the best price of all; the lace is both written and charted.
I hope that you take advantage of knitting a scarf without any joins to weave in and that you like my pattern. Let me know what you think and please, if you do take on this lovely project, post photos to your project page on Ravelry!
Size: 29cm x 208cm or 11.5” x 82”
Materials: one cake of Caron Cakes (350m or 383 yds) or the equivalent in any worsted weight yarn.
Tools: one circular 6.5mm or US 10.5 knitting needle, two stitch markers, and tapestry needle for weaving in ends.
Gauge: 14 stitches x 22 rows = 10cm or 4”. Gauge is important only if you vary widely from this as your scarf may end up much bigger or smaller. Close (2 stitches and rows) will be fine.
Note: if you wish a larger or smaller scarf, increase or decrease stitches and rows in even numbers to maintain the pattern.
Lace Pattern:
Row 1: YO, K2tog to end.
Row 2: Purl.
Row 3: K2tog, YO to end.
Row 4: Purl.
Seed Stitch:
Row 1: K1, P1 to end.
Row 2: P1, K1 to end.
Instructions:
Cast on 210 stitches; I used a cable cast on but any stretchy one will do.
Rows 1 to 3: Work 3 rows of seed stitch.
Rows 4 to 59: Working 5 stitches in seed stitch at the beginning and end of each row, work the 4 rows of the lace pattern 14 times.
Rows 60 and 61: Working 5 seed stitches at the beginning and end of each row, work rows 1 and 2 of the lace pattern.
Rows 62 to 64: Work 3 rows of seed stitch.
Cast off loosely! Weave in your ends and block your new scarf.
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