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I am not a designer. Only a periodic knitter and crafter who loves to find out how things are constructed.
This is how I became a Ravelry “designer” and how I quit:

In the early days of Ravelry there was a triangle scarf going around in the Norwegian knitting community. People called it Baktus, which was actually the user name of the knitter who made it popular (also the name of a character in a children’s book). The idea was to make a scarf using up your exact amount of yarn, by increasing, weighing the skein(s) and then start decreasing once you have used up half the yarn. Great! I had to try it myself.

After I had made my version a friend urged me to put my instructions on here, so I did. Ravelry was young and the site needed content. Happy to share!
I probably should have given it another name, though, since I didn’t “design” anything and the Baktus handle belonged to someone else.

Later I put some instructions for some of my other projects on here. Again, I don’t really like to call them designs.

Over time I realised that sharing free patterns came with a lot of questions, expectations, and, frankly, entitlement from other users. I don’t have the capacity to give pattern support and I don’t hang out here much anymore.
Also, I want to choose how I use my own time, thank you very much.
Some years ago this big thing happened which made me want to distance myself even further, iykyk.

So.
The Baktus is not really a “design” but a reverse engineered simple scarf. I encourage you to do your own reverse engineering. You can find instructions for increasing and decreasing without much difficulty.

I am not going to come after anyone who wishes to pick up where I left, feel free to write your own instructions and share them. Good luck.

Thank you to everyone who has knitted stuff from my patterns and contributed in different ways. My “designer” days have come to an end and I wish you all well.

Strikkelise

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