Nautilina Scarf

This crescent shaped scarf is knitted
all in garter stitch from side to side. Its shaped by short rows and only grows very slowly in width, all increases are made in the middle of the piece.

When finished and laid out straight, the scarf will measure about 160cm on the shorter (C1-only-)side.

Compared to the first idea (as shown here) quite a few changes to the design have been made.

Nautilina is the spanish word for Nautilus (see on Wikipedia) – and I think the scarf’s pattern looks a bit similar.




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Materials:

• a total of 115 to 120 grams of fingering weight yarn in two colours – I used 80 grams of variegated yarn as main colour (C1)  and 25 grams of my contrast  colour (C2 – black in the pictures).

• 3.5 mm knitting needles

• two stitch markers, one of them removable

• tapestry needle (to weave in ends)

Techniques:

• w+t: wrap and turn - my preferred method for short rows (a short row tutorial can be found here).

Instructions:

Throughout the pattern, garter stitch ridges with increases or decreases are highlighted in boldface.

Set-up  Rows
CO4
R1 (C1): k2 pm k2
R2 (C1): k to end

Increases Part 1
R3 (C2): k to m w+t
R4 (C2): k to end
R5 (C1): k to end
R6 (C1): k to end
R7 (C2): k to m w+t
R8 (C2): k to end
R9 (C1): k to end
R10 (C1): k to stitch before marker, kfb, sm, k to end
R11 (C2): k to m w+t
R12 (C2): k to end
R13 (C1): k to end
R14 (C1): k to end
R15 (C2): k to m w+t
R16 (C2): kfb k to end
R17 (C1): k to end
R18  (C1): k to end

Repeat rows 3 to 16 until there are 34 sts on your needles, 17 sts on each side of your stitch marker - from now on, only the C1-part will be widened.

Increases Part 2
R1 (C2): k to m w+t
R2 (C2): k to end
R3 (C1): k to end
R4 (C1): k to end
R5 (C2): k to m w+t
R6 (C2): k to end
R7 (C1): k to end
R8 (C1): k to stitch before marker, kfb, sm, k to end
R9 (C2): k to m w+t
R10 (C2): k to end
R11 (C1): k to end
R12 (C1): k to end
R13 (C2): k to m w+t
R14 (C2):  k to end
R15 (C1): k to end
R16  (C1): k to end

Repeat these rows until there are 41 sts on your needles, 17 sts on one side of your stitch marker (where the short rows are) and 24 on the other side of your stitch marker (C1 only)

Middle part (no changes in stitch count)
R1 (C2): k to m, w+t
R2 (C2): k to end
R3 (C1): k to end
R4 (C1): k to end

Repeat these rows a total of 99 times

Decreases Part 1
R1 (C2): k to m w+t
R2 (C2): k to end
R3 (C1): k to end
R4 (C1): k to end
R5 (C2): k to m w+t
R6 (C2): k to end
R7 (C1): k to end
R8 (C1): k to end
R9 (C2): k to m w+t
R10 (C2): k to end
R11 (C1): k to m, ssk, k to end
R12 (C1): k to end
R13 (C2): k to m w+t
R14 (C2):  k to end
R15 (C1): k to end
R16  (C1): k to end

Repeat these rows until there are 34 stitches on your needles, 17 sts on either side of your stitch marker

Decreases Part 2
R1 (C2): k to m w+t
R2 (C2): ssk, k to end
R3 (C1): k to end
R4 (C1): k to end
R5 (C2): k to m w+t
R6 (C2): k to end
R7 (C1): k to end
R8 (C1): k to end
R9 (C2): k to m w+t
R10 (C2): k to end
R11 (C1): k to end
R12 (C1): k to 2 sts before marker, ssk, sm, k to end
R13 (C2): k to m w+t
R14 (C2):  k to end
R15 (C1): k to end
R16  (C1): k to end


Repeat these rows until there are only 4 stitches left on your needles.
BO and weave in ends.


Tips:

• I found it useful to place a stitch marker (safety pin) after finishing row 16, then counting from there, I’d increase in C1 (main colour) after the second C2 (contrast colour) stripe and increase in contrast colour in the fourth stripe.
• Stay consistent as to how to cross your yarns when changing colours; I always put the new (to be used) yarn UNDER and behind the old yarn (see photo).