I’m planning to use up these complimentary merino/silk fingering weight leftovers by holding them doubled in this looped scarf. I liked the fabric I got with the US 7 needles, about 4.5 sts/inch.

I CO 44 stitches with waste yarn and therefore have 7 ribbed sections with two extra stitches for the edging. I am knitting the last st of each row and slipping the first st of each row purlwise for a tidy, slipped stitch edge.

Color order will be Espresso, Chocolate Chambord, Driftwood

2/21/2013: I can’t say how much I love having a mindless, easy, grab-and-go-and-knit-anywhere project on the needles and this project is totally fitting the bill. Plus using up three half-skeins!

The JulieSpins Silk Merino and the Woolen Rabbit Opulence are both lovely, silky, strong, dense yarns, and held doubled they make a lovely, silky, strong, dense fabric. The Sundara FSM has a softer hand and I think it will be interesting how it knits up in comparison.

As lovely as they are, it’s a bit hard on my hands to knit, and a reminder of why I enjoy spinning the soft, lofty woolen yarns.

2/22/2013: This project is just zooming along - sitting in a lot of meetings these last two days. Joined the third color (Sundara FSM in Driftwood). I love how this project is looking and the FSM is knitting up with more drape and is easier on my hands to knit.

3/5/2013: All done but the grafting - need a quiet moment for that.

3/21/2013: I have a quiet moment and am determined to do the grafting. It’s much more complicated than I expected. I’m having to do quite a bit of searching around the other finished Looped Loops on Ravelry to understand how to do the grafting in ribbing.

3/22/2013: It took a while, but I got it to work. I recommend quiet space and time to focus on your work - when I did it while watching TV, I had to tink back more than once. Here is what I learned:

Kitchener Stitch in Ribbing

Thanks to Katrinket, I understand that is there is one less stitch in the provisional cast-on than the live stitches end of the work, and that extra stitch is showing up as a half-stitch. Luckily, this can be fixed if you adjust how you start the grafting and put the needle with more stitches to the back.

To start, per Katrinket:

1. You need one more st on the back needle than on the front. Otherwise, you will still end up with your graft shifted over a half st.
2. Don’t do the regular set up stitches. Instead, purl the front needle st but leave it on the needle. Purl the back needle st and drop it off the needle. Then purl the 2nd st on back needle. Now you’re set up (that half-stitch has been taken care of) and you are good to begin the grafting for reals.

To graft, per KnitMonster:
Rather than trying to memorize the different steps, I learned you can read the knitting and figure out what needs to come next.

1. The front needle is always knit, slip, purl
2. When you are at a stockinette portion of the ribbing, the back needle is purl, slip, knit
3. When you are at a reverse stockinette portion of the ribbing, the back needle is knit, slip, knit

For those stitches where you are transitioning from stockinette to reverse stockinette or vice versa, you’ll be doing the same thing on both stitches on the back needle (both knits or both purls), depending on the fabric. Read the link to KnitMonster for more details on this.

More links I found with good advice:
fiberdreamer
knittinghelp