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

[hobbitbabe]

I've never done a scarf in the round but the other knitter in my family has done several. (She can make an intarsia colour pattern for a sports-team logo and not worry about the messy back.)

One purl stitch on each side helps them to lie flat, although interestingly they don't choose to fold exactly on the purl.

She just sews up the ends, but you could also graft if you like grafting.

[jackandahat]

Grafting isn't really up there on my "ways to spend a Saturday night" list, but I think it looks nice - and trying to sew up knitting drives me nuts, so it's definitely a possibility. Thanks for the info.