"Football Mosaic Scarf"
Materials:
Worsted weight yarn in two contrasting colors - Approximately 220 yards (100g) each MC and cc. 1 pair size 8 US (5 mm) needles or size you typically use to knit worsted weight.
Gauge:
19 stitches & 30 rows = 4" in pattern stitch (knit every row). However, gauge is not critical for this project.
General Notes -- how to read the pattern chart:
This mosaic design features rows of staggered footballs separated by Doric columns. This scarf is knit using slipped stitches - an easy technique that creates textured, two-color results while knitting with only one color at a time. lf you can knit a garter stitch scarf, you can knit this scarf. Skills: Cast on, knit, slip stitches purlwise, bind off. Size: 6.5" wide X 74" long
Standard Abbreviations:
K - Knit CO - Cast on BO - Bind off RS - Right side WS - Wrong side MC - Main color yarn CC - Contrast color yarn This pattern uses a mosaic chart. Each row of the chart represents 2 rows of knitting with the same color yarn. Each row of the chart is read first right to left for the RS (odd numbered) rows and then left to right for the WS (even numbered) rows. The first square of the chart shows when to use MC (black) or CC (white). When knitting a MC row, knit the stitch represented by the black squares and slip the stitch represented by the white squares purlwise with yarn in back on the RS and yarn in front on the WS. The term "front" means the side closest to you when knitting, and “back" means the side away from you when knitting. When knitting a CC row, knit the stitch represented by the white square and slip the stitch represented by the black square purlwise with the yarn in back on the RS and in front on the WS. You don't really need to reference the chart for the WS rows, just knit the stitches that are in the same color as the working yarn and slip the others with the yarn in front. There is no need to cut the yarn between rows of MC and CC. Just twist the MC and CC yarns before every RS row to carry the yarn up the side.
Directions (see general notes to read chart correctly):
CO 31 stitches with CC. Work rows 1-64 of the Football Mosaic Chart, starting at the bottom right of the chart Row 1 with CC. Repeat Football Mosic Chart 8 more times - for a total of 9 times. Work rows 1-34 of the chart to make the ends symmetrical. BO in CC. Weave in ends, and block scarf to straighten sides, if necessary.
All comments welcome at verdigris.knits@gmail.com. This design was inspired by the Pillard Band pattern presented in Barbara G Walker's Charted Knitting Designs A Third Treasure of Knitting Patterns, 1998, SchoolhousePress.
