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Friday, March 4, 2011

Baktus Scarf

This Baktus scarf (free download here)

although unblocked, holds its shape amazingly well.  It is made from hand dyed sock yarn by Jelly Bean in the UK, edged with lace weight yarn in a contrasting color.

Designer Strikkelis says:
This is my version of a scarf that was all over the Norwegian blogs a couple of years ago.  The principle is to take one or a couple of skeins, and knit a triangle using your exact amount of yarn.

A good way to use up one of those single skeins of sock yarn in bright colours.To be able to know when I had used up half of my skein, I used a scale:
I weighed my yarn before casting on. Weighing the skein every now and then, I started decreasing when I had about 50% of the skein left.
This is a clever way to never run out of yarn while knitting up this scarf.

Since the yellow yarn used for the crochet edging was lace weight, I used the navajo plying technique to hold three strand together, thus making a three plied yarn with a more substantial look and feel.

Lucy Neatby gives a YouTube video on the navajo technique of creating 3 strands of yarn from 1:

5 comments:

  1. HI Nancy..wonderful post...so lovely to always see what you are up to! Great video...fantastic!
    Hope you are doing well and wishing you a super-happy wkd agead!
    Take care
    Kiki

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  2. OHHHHH how gorgeous! Thanks for sharing your lovely work with me! HUGS!

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  3. Hi Nancy!!
    Love the Baktus!!!
    Ellie
    x

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  4. Beautiful in every way. Love the colors.

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  5. Ingenious! I love the idea of weighing the scarf to find the mid-point.
    It looks beautiful!

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