Such a lovely gift from the designer, Marina Morozova. Unfortunately, this is not a reversible scarf, but the right side has a beautiful, simple, but interesting stitch pattern. The great thing about this scarf is the fact that you can use any yarn, and make it any width or length that you desire. It’s a super quick project with an easy-to-remember 4-row stitch pattern. Note that row 3 of the stitch pattern will temporarily decrease the stitch count.

I did only 4 repeats of the stitch pattern (width wise) because I’m knitting this for a little girl using aran weight yarn. I would have preferred a lighter weight yarn for this scarf. However, I could not find the color I wanted in a DK or sport weight. This dusty pink color was perfect. It’s hard to find sophisticated colors in the inexpensive yarn lines. Most of the pinks are the “candy pink, hot pink or fushia” colors which I don’t like. This “Blush” color is definitely a soft, warm, “ballet pink.”

On rows following the yarnovers, I did a “ktbl” or twisted knit stitch over the YOs to help close up the holes. The pattern says to do this over the “m1” (backward loop cast on) stitches, but I also did it over the YOs.

I probably should have gone up one needle size for a looser fabric, but I wanted a narrow scarf. The size 8 US (5 mm) needle worked out okay, though.

Usually I follow charts, but with this pattern, I think it’s easier to follow the written directions with the stitch counts indicated. The charts use somewhat unconventional symbols and the graph lines are such a light color that you can’t see them on a print-out. Also, if you are trying to print out individual pages (as I often do), the PDF page numbers will differ from the page numbers printed in the pattern.

Transcription to Chart A:

I did Rows 1 - 34, ending with 21 sts on the needle.
Note that Rows 33 and 34 are equivalent to Rows 1 & 2 of Chart B/Main Chart or the straight part of the scarf. Therefore, when starting on Chart B written instructions, I began with Row 3 (4 repeats instead of 5).

I did 55 repeats of Section B before starting directions under Transcription to Chart C.“

Transcription to Chart C: Rows 9 - 42

I started on Row 9 of these instructions which reduced my 21 sts to 20. Followed the remaining instructions to the end and bound off the 4 remaining stitches knitwise.

I left a long yarn tail on each end for attaching the pom poms.

I don’t know if there’s a mistake on Row 38 of the last (decrease) section (both Chart C and the written instructions), but I did not like the way it looks if you follow the pattern. (That knit stitch in the middle of the row looks weird to me.) So I did Row 38 of Chart C as follows:

WS: sl1p, p4, sl1p (6 sts)

All the other rows of Chart C worked out fine.

I also made one other very minor change in the LAST Row 4 of the middle/straight section. The pattern says to do this:

WS: sl1p, p1, ^k1 …….

Instead, I did this: WS: sl1p, ^p1 ……

I only changed the THIRD stitch in that entire row which is a transition row to Section C. For the subsequent repeats in that row, I followed the instructions as written. This isn’t a big deal. If you choose not to change anything, at least make an attempt to knit that 3rd stitch in the row tightly because it’s close to the edge and is an interruption to the flow of the edge stitches.

Measurements:

The beginning end measures 6” from point to where the straight section starts. Straight section measures 38.5”. End section measures 6.5” to point. Final size (excluding pom poms) is 3.75” (9.5 cm) wide x 51” (129.5 cm) long.

Weight of finished scarf: 2.9 oz (82 grams)
Note: The yarn label says “7 oz” (198.5 grams). However, I weighed the full ball of yarn and it actually weighed 7.5 oz (212.6 grams). So the yardage may actually be a bit more than what is stated in the Ravelry data base for this yarn.

I had 4.3 oz (122 grams) of yarn left over which is equivalent to 218 yards (199 meters). So the leftovers will make a matching hat, mittens or even another scarf of this length or slightly longer.