This textured scarf that combines slipped stitches with garter stitches to create arrows is a must knit! The length of this scarf allows it to be worn many different ways for optimal warmth.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Size: 6½” / [16.5 cm] wide x 87” / [221 cm] long
Gauge: One Arrow patt rep = 6½” / [16.5 cm] across and approximately ¾” / [2 cm] high
Materials
Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Bulky (100% Peruvian Highland Wool, 137 yards [125 meters]/100 grams): 25107 Silver, 3 hanks.
Needle: US size 11 (8 mm)
Notions: Tapestry needle
Abbreviations
k1 below – slip right needle under strand, k1, pass strand over stitch
wyif – with yarn in front
Special Stitches
Garter Pattern
Knit every row
Arrow Pattern (23 sts over 4 rows)
Row 1 (RS): Sl1 wyif, k3, (sl1 wyif) 3 times, k2, (sl1 wyif) 5 times, k2, (sl1 wyif) 3 times, k4.
Row 2 (WS): Sl1 wyif, k3, p3, k2, p5, k2, p3, k4.
Row 3: Sl1 wyif, k4, (k1 below, k5) 3 times.
Row 4: Rep Row 2.
Rep Rows 1-4 for patt.
Pattern Notes
Scarf is worked back and forth from the bottom up.
Slip sts purlwise.
The pattern can be worked from the text or chart.
Pattern
CO 23 sts.
Edging
Rows 1-6: Sl1 st wyif, work in Garter Pattern.
Body
Work Rows 1-4 of Arrow Pattern 114 times.
Edging
Rows 1-6: Sl1 st wyif, work in Garter Pattern.
BO off loosely in knit.
Finishing
Lightly block to measurements. Weave in ends.