This super easy, beginner friendly, striped tube scarf is perfect as a holiday gift or just for your living your best frazzled woman dreams.

The scarf is knit in the round and the length and width gets to be adjustable to your liking. You can go up in needle size or down in needle size depending on your fabric preference. You can also cast on more or less stitches to create a wider or skinnier overall scarf.

Using a long tail cast on, you will knit in the round to your preferred length. If you are creating stripes yourself with different yarns, you will change yarns every 5 rows, carrying up the non working yarn or breaking and rejoining each yarn. You can also change the width of stripes to your liking by increasing or decreasing rows of each color.

If you’re using a self striping yarn, you will simply just knit in the round until you reach the length you prefer. This is a very beginner friendly project if you use self-striping yarn!

This project was designed to use up scrap yarn and be completely tailored to your width and length preferences, so getting gauge is not super important. However, if you are using scrap yarn its advised you use yarns that are the same weight, as using lighter and heavier weight yarns together might create a product that is bumpy or irregular.

Sizes: One Size (adjustable width and length)

Yarn: DROPS Air Knit Picks Chrome Worsted
Knit Picks Oceana Worsted
Wool and the Gang Feeling Good Strip

Yardage: Sample was knit with 3 colors, with two colors as primary. You could easily adjust yardage depending on how many colors you want to use.

Primary color one: 350 yards / 320 meters
Primary color two: 350 yards /320 meters
Secondary color: 180 yards / 164 meters

Total yardage: approx. 550 yards / 502 meters for a 6.5’ scarf (you will need more for a longer scarf!)

Gauge: 17 x 24 in stockinette flat using metal needles

Recommended needles: US 8 / 5 mm on 8”/ 20cm cord or US 8 / 5 mm needles with 30” / 76 cm + cord for magic loop or US 8 / 5 mm dpns. If you are choosing to make your scarf wider, you might be able to use a 14” / 35 cm cord.

notions used
stitch marker, snips, tapestry needle

Skills required for this pattern: long tail cast on, joining in the round with invisible join, knitting in the round, carrying yarn, jogless stripes, Icelandic bindoff (video support is provided in pattern!)