Showing my newb/inspired by last post.

[jackandahat]

I liked this pattern so I turned it into a scarf (picture pre-blocking, it's still drying).

Now, I want to do one in the round so I can have both sides of the scarf looking the same. But I have two questions:

1. What do you do with the ends of a scarf knit in the round? (I've never done one before). Leave them open? Sew them shut? Do a provisional cast on and graft them like sock toes so they're all neat? (Both a general: "What should I do?" and "What do you do?")

2. When making it round - would I just repeat the pattern, side by side, or would it help to add a stitch either side so it will lie flat? (I was thinking a one or two-stitch-wide stockingette strip to be the "fold", if that makes sense?) Of course, I don't know what I'm doing here - never knitted a scarf in the round, just socks and hats and such - so I could be talking out my ear here.

Comments

[glace]

My first scarf-in-the-round was the Harry Potter Azkaban scarf (pattern archived here). It looks like your SH2 scarf is pretty much the same thing, just narrower and with color changes in different places, so you could use this as a jumping off point. As for whether to make a "seam" or not so it folds well - I'm sure that will work if you're careful with the counting, but I think it would be very annoying to have to. My PoA scarf has a 'natural' fold that works fine - and half the fun of knitting in the round like this is NOT having to count so much - you just zoom to the end of the round. :)

[jackandahat]

SH2? Colour changes? *Is confused*

I'm having to count constantly for the pattern, so I'm not really sure where zooming comes into it.

[glace]

Whoops, I think I replied to the wrong person. I had two tabs open that day, and one was making a striped scarf from Sherlock Holmes 2. Sorry to have confused the issue!