Knitting Scarves

I love knitting and I'm discovering expensive yarns.  This particular one, I'm embarrassed to say how much it cost, and I had 20 % off.  It is a skein of yarn with different fiber types hand tied together. I made two scarves out of one skein, since the fibers repeat themselves, once. I fell in love with it, so I used it as my birthday present. 

This scarf is knitted long ways with the length of fiber making one and a half rows.  I wanted it a little wider and I thought it would be too long with one row per fiber length.  I wish it was a bit longer, but it works fine.  I ran out of yard about 10 inches from the end so I raided my stash for some pretty yarn that matched to finish. 

Here is a close up of the fiber changes.

The other half I made into a skinny triangular scarf.  It is about 6 feet long, which seems too long, but it worked really well to wrap up.  However, someone saw it, and I sold it, so I need to make another one for me.   This pattern was easy. Cast on, three stitches, Row 1 knit to end, cast on 4 stitches. Row 2, knit to end, cast on 4 stitches.  Continue until it's the size you like. I used size 11 circular needles.

This scarf is similar, using a double strand of fancy thick cotton thread. I think I only cast on three at the end of every row.  It is a little wider at the end, and shorter.  I knit one or two extra rows even at the last, to make the points wider, and finished with 5 double crochet shells all around. (sc in between each shell)

I'm really happy with the way this turned out.  I was using thread I tried to make several things out of and didn't finish.  It drapes really well.

I used the size 11 needles on this as well.

I used these same needles with some worsted wool, doubled to make a mobius scarf. They are easy and fast. I used Cat's video to help me cast on, it's a bit tricky.  I can't find the scarf at the moment to take a picture.