As I promised Sharon, this is a post about my favourite scarf.
Working a yarn store, I get to see the nummiest yarns as they came in. When RYC Baby Alpaca DK arrived I just KNEW i had to have it wrapped around my neck in some form! I could picture the scarf i wanted and spent weeks working out the ideal way to create it. This is what i came up with* in order to create the perfect striped skinny scarf
Materials: 2 balls each of RYC Baby Alpaca Southdown (A) and RYC Baby Alpaca Lincoln (B) (or any complementary DK weight yarns)
a set of double pointed 5mm needles (or circular for magic loop)
Method:
With col A cast on 36 stitches (or twice as many stitches as would give you your desired width). Join for working in the round.
knit 6 rows.
Without breaking col A, join col B.
knit 6 rows with col B, carrying col A up the centre of the tube, catching it with col B to keep it neat.
continue in this way, alternating A and B until scarf is desired length. My scarf ended up around 2.75m long and i finished with col B.
sew in ends and wash and dry (or whatever blocking method you use) so that scarf sits flat with one ‘edge’ being where you’ve changed colours.
The result?
I apologise for the wip photo, but in the 2 years i’ve had this i haven’t taken a photo of it in it’s full finished form!! I will try to get one soon to replace this one!
*I’m sure I’m not the first person to come up with this, and i won’t be the last, but i did make this up from scratch, with no reference to an existing pattern.
Armed with Needles in an Uncertain World 
I was only thinking of this scarf the other day! For some reason I remembered you had a striped scarf knitted like a big tube!
Thanks. Now I’m going to knit me one. Except in self stripping sock wool. With a different stitch count, and on a different needle size 🙂
This is very timely–looks like the scarf the villian wears in Despicable Me 🙂