Hi! I wanted a skinny scarf with this beige yarn. Instead of doing the easy thing of knitting a lace pattern for an hour, I stopped and thought:
How can I knit a lacy pattern that reminds me of an image I know?
I looked around my living room and saw my porcelain flower basket.
The basket colors looked like the “Natural Ombre” yarn. I thought why not knit a basketweave type stitch and a flowery type lace? I knit the linen stitch 5 times, then a diamond cluster lace pattern 6 times. After 30 minutes it looked like this:
Update 1: After an hour:
The linen stitch makes it look like a basket holding blooming flowers. I was surprised to that each “cluster” is a different color white or beige. Would like to try this where the color lasts the 10 stitches of a row.
Beige Flower Basket Skinny Scarf With Lily Sugar ‘N Cream Natural Ombre Yarn Knit Pattern
from A Long Thin Knit Scarf Blog at http://1knitscarf.wordpress.com/
Cast on 9 stitches of Lily Sugar ‘N Cream Natural Ombre Yarn with size 6.5 needles.
- Repeat this 2-row linen stitch 6 times:
Row 1: knit 1, slip 1 with yarn in front, knit 1, slip 1 with yarn in front, knit 1
Row 2: knit 1, purl 1, slip 1 with yarn in back, purl 1, slip 1 with yarn in back, purl 1, knit last stitch
- Begin Diamond Cluster Lace pattern and repeat this 4-row pattern 4 times
Row 1: knit 2, yarn over, knit 3, with the left hand needle pass the 3rd stitch on the right hand needle over the 1st 2 stitches, yarn over, knit 3, with the left hand needle pass the 3rd stitch on the right hand needle over the 1st 2 stitches, knit last stitch
Row 2: knit 2, purl 5, knit last 2
Row 3: knit 4, with the left hand needle pass the 3rd stitch on the right hand needle over the 1st 2 stitches, yarn over, with the left hand needle pass the 3rd stitch on the right hand needle over the 1st 2 stitches, knit last 2 stitches
Row 4: knit 2, purl 5, knit last 2
Keep switching from the Linen Stitch to the Dimaond CLuster Lace pattern at least 28 times. Cast off.
I’ll finish this tomorrow while listening to Vaughan sing “Key Largo” and “Black Coffee”
Take care.
