Mermaid's Garden Scarf

This scarf was knitted as a birthday present for a friend of mine. She chose the yarn and I designed and knitted it. Short rows are used to create a light wavy pattern. Lace rows inbetween create a bubbly effect. Since it is basically all garter stitch with a simple lace pattern inbetween, it's easy to knit but has a stunning effect.

The pattern is available for purchase on

• Ravelry 
• Loveknitting. 
• Payhip and
• Gumroad.

It contains written instructions as well as illustrations how the short rows stack up.

Besides garter stitch you need the following skills to knit this scarf:

• Basic lace stitches: i.e yo (yarn over), k2tog (k2 together), ssk (slip slip knit)
• Short rows with double stitches (also called German Short Rows): when you turn, bring yarn to the front and pull it back so that both legs of the stitch are visible on your neeedle, i.e. a double-stitch is created, then knit back as usual - when you have to knit the double-stitch, be careful to knit it as one stitch (see also this YouTube video by leethal knits).
  In addition, the pattern explains how to adapt it to use the "wrap and turn"-method, as well.

Materials needed to knit this scarf

• about 200 grams of fingering weight yarn – something with a long color gradient (I used two skeins of Lang Yarns Jawoll Magic Dégradé), but a solid color will look fine, too
• 3.5 mm needles – I used circulars, but straight needles will do as well
• 5 stitch markers
• a removable stitch marker can be used to mark the RS which is helpful when doing the short row sequences
• a tapestry needle to weave in ends

Size

The finished piece measures about 46 cm in width and 170 cm in length.

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