Knit Easy: Sherbet Angora Scarf

I am nothing if not creative. I had absolutely no idea how to purl but I saw a scarf in a store that was severely over priced so I went right home to figure it out for myself. The one in the store was not angora, it was just some yarn and the colors were blue and green. Not my colors so I went ahead with my favorites of pink and orange. I also decided the angora was the way to go because I'm a chick at heart and I love the super soft feel of angora and alpaca. No animals are harmed in the making of these products. They are sheered, clipped, and/or brushed so please PETA people no nasty comments.

This was one of the first things I made so it was a real learning experience. For example if you alternate one row of knit with one row of purl all the way through you will start to notice a curling up of your item. There is a wonderful thing referred to as blocking that "fixes" this. Really it is just ironing. Because you flop the striping effect from one side of this scarf to the other there is no curling. Pretty cool trick if you ask me. Also because I used two complementary colors at one time I got a 'heathering' effect. Love this look.

The other bonus to using two strands of yarn was that individually they were baby fine and would have needed to be on much smaller needles, which would have taken a whole lot more time. I'm not about that. I am instant gratification girl and I want to start and finish a project in the same day. I was done in about four hours, learning curve and all.

Materials:

Two balls each of two colors angora yarn

Size 9 knitting needles

Crochet hook

Step by step:

Cast on 15 stitches

Row 1: knit

Row 2: purl

Row 3: knit

Row 4: purl

Row 5: purl

Row 6: knit

Row 7: purl

Row 8: knit

Row 9: purl

Row 10: purl

Repeat from Row 1 to Row 10 until desired length. Be sure to end on a Row 4 or 9. Then add one more knit row while binding off. Weave ends in or blend into the fringe. I left them dangling a bit long and then tied the fringe around them. I'm lazy like that.

I added fringe by cutting 8" lengths of both colors. One strand of each held together and folded in half was looped through each beginning stitch and ending stitch. Once they were all tied on I suspended the scarf, from a hanger so it was essentially folded in half and I could trim the fringe to the same length.

For easy to follow instructions for casting on, knitting and purling, or binding off you can log on to lionbrandyarn.com