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Suggestions For Knitting Comfort Scarves

 4 - 5 Inch X 60+ Inch Comfort Scarf


Use soft mid-weight or bulky yarn. Or combine yarns different textured yarns to make your scarf more interesting. Different stitches use more or less yarn. Wrap and Drop uses the least.

MID-WEIGHT

Use size 10 ½, 11, or 13 needles.
  Cast on 10, 11, 12, or 13 stitches depending on which pattern you select. 

  *  Garter stitch
:     10, 11, 12, or 13 stitches.  Knit each row. 
                             Cast off. 
Weave in the ends.

  *  Seed stitch
:       11 or 13 stitches.  Every row, knit 1, purl 1.  End with knit 1.
                             Cast off. 
Weave in the ends.

  *  Farrow rib
:        13 stitches.  Every row, knit 3, purl 1.  End with knit 1. 
                             Cast off. 
Weave in the ends.

  *  Wrap & drop
:    10, 11, 12, or 13 stitches. 
Knit two rows, then begin the pattern.
      
       Row 1:  (Wrap row) knit 1, *YO, knit 1* to end of row
       Row 2: 
(Drop row) knit 1, *drop the wrapped stitch, knit 1* to the end of row.

After the last drop row, knit two rows (as you did at the beginning).
  Cast off.  Weave in the ends. 

BULKY

Use size 15, 17, or 19 needles. Cast on 7, 8, 9, or 10 stitches, depending on which pattern you select.

  *  Garter stitch:
   7, 8, 9, or 10 stitches.  Knit each row.  Cast off. 
Weave in the ends.

  *  Seed stitch
:      7 or 9 stitches.  Every row, knit 1, purl 1.  End with knit 1.
                           Cast off. 
Weave in the ends.

  *  Farrow rib
:      9 stitches.  Every row, knit 3, purl 1.  End with knit 1.
                           Cast off. 
Weave in the ends.

  *  Wrap & drop
:  7, 8, 9, or 10 stitches. 
Knit two rows, then begin the pattern.

      Row 1:  
(Wrap row)  knit 1, *YO, knit 1* to end of row
     
Row 2:  
(Drop row)  knit 1, *drop the wrapped stitch, knit 1* to the end of row

After the last drop row, knit two rows (as you did at the beginning).  Cast off. 
Weave in the ends.

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