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

[ironed_orchid]

Pretty.

Sometimes I like tassles, sometimes I like adding a scalloped edge.

And sometimes I read the actual question, but still, it usually would depend on the sort of scarf. For something lace, I might add some scalloped edges and leave it open.

[jackandahat]

I am having fun with the design - I'd never tried to follow a pattern like that before (shaped stuff, yeah, but not making a pattern out of it, if that makes sense?) so I decided 3am was the perfect time to cast on and learn, and it came out OK!

[ironed_orchid]

I've had knitting moments like that.

Scarves are great cos you can just pick a stitch you like and go for it.