You Will Need:
• 550 yards (502 m) lace* weight yarn, two strands held together
—or—
275 yards (251 m) fingering* weight yarn
• 2 feet (.6 m) fingering weight waste yarn in a contrasting color (for provisional cast-on)
• 2.75mm (US 2) needles, straight or circular
• 3.25mm (US D) crochet hook (for provisional cast-on)
• yarn needle (for grafting), 3 stitch markers (1 to mark the wrong side, 2 to mark edge stitches for i-cord)

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate**
Techniques Employed: Provisional cast-on, knitting, purling, slipping stitches, grafting.
Gauge: 33 stitches & 44 rows = 4 inches (10 cm) square in Plissé Pattern, unblocked
Finished size: 4” (10 cm) wide x 49” (125 cm) circumference

Notes:
• Yarn used is Noro Sekku, colors 5 and 6, one strand of each held together.
• Knitted too loosely, knit-to-purl transitions can look sloppy. If using an inelastic yarn (like cotton or silk), select a needle size at least one full millimeter smaller than you would for stockinette. This will keep the stitches looking neat. A firmly knitted fabric also helps the pleats to be more pronounced. Please keep this in mind if substituting a different weight of yarn and needle size.
• Some techniques are illustrated in tutorials linked on the last page of the pattern.
• Scarf shown is wrapped twice, and pinned with a vintage brooch.

* Some countries call lace “2ply” weight & fingering “4ply” weight.
** The provisional cast-on and grafting are what determine the intermediate skill level; a simpler version is also given on page 2.

Construction:
The scarf is cast on provisionally, then knitted around to either the desired length or near the end of whatever yarn you happen to be using. It is then grafted closed so that it is truly reversible because both sides are identical and the seam is invisible. (As given, this scarf is not a möbius. To make it a möbius, fold scarf in half flat to graft or seam, then put one half-twist in it as shown here.)

The yardage (meterage) specified includes a bit of padding in case the desired length is longer than that given in pattern or the yarn chosen happens to get “eaten” faster than expected. The pattern is 3 pages long and roughly 775 kilobytes. The latest version of the pattern was released on May 10, 2011.