Escalera Scarf

Recently, I was invited to hold knitting workshops for the first time. I decided to have one on knitting square holes without cutting yarn – a technique I had used in my Negative Spaces Scarf. Since I had only one pattern with this technique, I wanted to design a second one in order to have something more to show and also to remind myself of how to do it.

This scarf is knitted sideways and all in garter stitch , but with square shaped holes. Once you've mastered how to do the square holes, this scarf is great TV or travel knitting.

The pattern is available for puchase 

• on Ravelry
• on Loveknitting and 
• on Payhip.

The pattern PDF contains:

• a photo tutorial on how to knit the square holes without cutting  yarn, 
• a schematic plus explanations of the scarf's construction
• row-by-row instructions to knit this scarf

Materials

• about 200 grams of fingering weight yarn – I used a Zauberball (Colorway Teezeremonie)
• two stitch markers – one of them removable
• 3.25 mm knitting needles
• a tapestry needle to weave in ends

The scarf I knitted measures 185 cm in length and 50 cm at its widest point. But the pattern is written in a way that you can adapt the size.

Necessary Knitting Skills

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

• backwards loop cast on
• bind off
• knitted cast on
• k2togtbl