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my not-MIL asked me to knit her a scarf in pink, powder blue & yellow. these are *so* not colors i enjoy, plus the yarn is Baby Homespun &/or Patons Be Mine . it's supposed to be predominately blue with smallish stripes of pink & yellow. so, i've started this scarf 9 times so far & i'm just hating it. i can't do it in garter or stockinette. i'm going batty from boredom. are there any texture or lace patterns that also look good with stripes that i can use, say, size 10 or larger (American) needles so i can get this damned thing *out* of my 'to do' basket? i'm forcing myself not to knit interesting stuff until i finish this thing (or i won't. that's bad for relations). would stockinette with short row loose points look ok? that might be interesting to knit... blue background with flappy points in pink & yellow...hmmmm lee

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enigma
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You could try Feather and Fan or Old Shale, in fact, any lace or eyelet pattern with about a four or six row repeat.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

you could make a Fair Isle pattern--but probably not with big needles. I bet there are lots of lace patterns that would work. Have you got something like Barbara Walker's Treasury of Stitch patterns that you could look in?

Georgia

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Georgia

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:17:00 -0500, "Georgia" I've found a very nice, easy, kind of lacy-look, reversible stitch for scarves on the net. (It's also in Barbara Walker.) It's called Turkish Stitch. I used size 8 needles with worsted weight yarn. With the Homespun you might want to try 9 or 10.

Cast on an even number of stitches.

row 1 - knit across, purl last stitch row 2 - slip 1, *yo, k2tog*, repeat from *, purl 1 repeat row 2 till the end, then one row 1, bind off.

There's a picture at this website, partway down the page:

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Alison

Interesting! I've done Seafoam and Twin Rib, both of which would also be suitable for the scarf the OP described,.

Georgia

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Georgia

Twin Rib is a great pattern. There's another, called the Scrunchable scarf, which is CO a multiple of 3; k2, p1 every row. Really easy and has a wide rib pattern with garter.

sue

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suzee

I like that and think it would be a good pattern for a lap cover

thanks for sharing!

Donna

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DAB

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