Double Helix

reproduced

As the AntiToast points out, results are only valid if an experiment can be repeated. Here's the scoop.

A couple of months ago, I was test-driving BlackTabi's scarf. When collecting PeachPit at school, her classmate Kiwi expressed deep admiration for the scarf. Small boys with a passion for color should have a hand knit scarf, don't you think?

My first attempt was a striped scarf with Noro odds and ends, but the colors just weren't jiving. Sideways seed stitch scarf, perhaps? After trying experiment on myself, I concluded that the texture would suit Kiwi. Would braided fringe at the end would be masculine enough? For a boy who wears his hair in corn rows and braids, the fringe should be fine.

Kiwi really loves his scarf, and it has a little room for growing.

Specs

• 96 grams of Noro Kureyon
• US5 Addi Turbos (47 inch)
• each strand 15 wraps around a CD case, sided to side
• 187 stitches
• 15 rows
• fringe at 5 and 6 inches long

thoughts while walking

Wouldn't monkeys be good at picking peaches? How could you get them to bring them down instead of eating them?

Why won't these people wait for the WALK sign?

Too bad that astronomical thingie is installed in front of a brick wall - I'll never get a good picture of it.

I hear you, black-capped chickadee! Where are you?

I didn't really imply that 59 is a possible solution of x times 3, did I? Well, there are 57 rows in this scarf, so x = 19, and that must be why I am remembering a nine - from the unspoken 19.

Not!

Thanks, Lucia, for catching that!

trompe l'oeil

Here are those odds and ends I was telling you about:

Seed stitch knitting with contrasting colors in every row gives the woven look, which I love. Knitting in the long direction gives one something to do with all of those ends, namely fringe.

Now I'm not big on fringe in general. I suspected that Kureyon fringe would not wear too well, so after knotting at the base of the fabric, I braided it and knotted it again.

The only thing that had begun to constrain my Kureyon addiction was the partial balls. Now that I have a reasonable solution for the loose ends, I have no mechanism for restraint.

Specs

• 175 g Noro Kureyon
• US5 Addi Turbos
  
• crocheted cast on 291 stitches (odd)
• 59 rows total (x times 3, where x is odd)
• gauges
• before bath: 4.2 st per inch
• after bath: 3.9 st per inch
• after bath: 11.2 rows per inch
• Fringe length: alternately 6.5 and 5.5 inches (could add one inch)
• dimensions excluding fringe: 74 by 5.25 inches