Ruffles

We stayed out at Skamania Lodge last month with some friends and had a really great time! Such a fun place to stay! We took a little trip into Stevenson for some coffee and found a fun little garden shop. They had some really cute scarves, in addition to lots of beautiful flowers. The scarves were sewn, not knit; with ruffles up and down both sides. So cute, but I decided they
would be even better if they were knit!

So I decided to create a pattern, and here it is! I used 3 skeins of Cascade Soft Spun (lots of beautiful colors available at The Naked Sheep Knit Shop!) and size 9 needles. You'll need a long circular needle when you do the ruffles.

Cast on 18 stitches. Work in garter stitch (knitting every row) until you have 199 ridges (or have knit 398 rows). Note: I slipped the first stitch of every row as if to purl with the yarn in front. This created slipped stitches along the edge that made it super easy to pick up and knit for the ruffles.

Pick up and knit 199 stitches along one side of scarf.

Row 1 (WS): Knit 1, *purl 1, knit 1; repeat from * to end of row.
Row 2 (RS): Knit 1, *make 1 right, knit 1, make 1 left, knit 1; repeat from * to end of row.
Row 3 (WS): Knit 1, *purl 3, knit 1; repeat from * to end of row.
Row 4 (RS): Knit 1, *make 1 right, knit 3, make 1 left, knit 1; repeat from * to end of row.
Row 5 (WS): Knit 1, *purl 5, knit 1; repeat from * to end of row.
Row 6 (RS): Knit.
Row 7 (WS): Knit 1, *purl 5, knit 1; repeat from * to end of row.
Row 8 (RS): Knit.
Row 9 (WS): Knit 1, *purl 5, knit 1; repeat from * to end of row.

Bind-off all stitches knitwise. Repeat on other side!

Hope you enjoy making and wearing this fun scarf as much as I enjoyed designing and knitting it!