Baby, It’s Cold Outside…
When the East wind blows down into the Bella Coola Valley from the Chilcotin Plateau, it’s time to keep the home fires burning. Temperatures drop well below freezing and the wind chill makes loading the wood box a daily activity.
This double layered scarf knits up quickly to provide extra layers of warmth during Arctic outflow days. The denim ragg yarn is knit in the round and then turned inside out to create a synthesis of texture and colour.

Materials:
1 skein BERNAT Super Value; 389 m, 197 g, worsted weight, 100% acrylic in Denim Ragg, colour #11538

or ~ 380 m of any worsted weight yarn

One 16” circular 8mm (US 11) needle

Stitch marker

Gauge
4” x 4” = 12 sts and 17 rows in stocking stitch using size 8 mm (US11) needles

Abbreviations

CO = cast on
ws = wrong side
rs = right side

Instructions

Scarf

CO 60 stitches onto circular needle. Join yarn, making sure not to twist work. Place marker.

Knit (ws) each round until work measures 70 inches.

Bind off loosely.

Weave in ends on ws.

Turn tube inside out (rs).

Fringe

Cut 56 pieces of yarn, each 12 inches long. Arrange into 14 bunches of 4 strands each. Fold each bunch in half.

Lay scarf on a flat surface. The visible side of the scarf becomes the top and the side touching the table is the bottom. Very near the end of the scarf, open a hole in the knitting to allow the folded end of one bunch of yarn to pass through both layers.

Push the folded end of one bunch from the top of scarf through the hole and leave a loop.

Take the cut ends of the bunch and pass them through the loop.

Pull the cut ends of the bunch through until it is secured at the scarf’s edge.
Repeat with six more bunches on the first end of the scarf. It may be easier to next place the other corner and middle fringes. After that place the remaining four equal distance from each other along the edge.
Repeat on the other end of the scarf with the remaining 7 bunches.