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Designer – Alison Hansel

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Pattern Rating – First Year

For the hip Harry Potter fan: It’s a skinny scarf, it’s a tie, it’s abelt, you could even wear it as a headband. Perfect forthe beginning knitter, you can knit this super-sim-ple garter stitch scarf as your very first knittingproject. Or if you’re an intermediateknitter, you can charm one uplickety-split before the nextmovie premiere. It’s what allthe cool Hogwarts studentsare wearing!

Instructions

With color A, CO 20 sts.Continuing with color A, beg fol-lowing desired stripe pattern(see page 95) and work rows asfollows:

Row 1 (WS):

Knit.

Row 2 (RS):

K2tog,knit to last st,k1f&b.Rep rows 1 and 2, switch-ing to color B and back tocolor A as described inthe stripe pattern (seepage 95), until scarf isapproximately 60" [152.5cm] long or desiredlength, ending with 10rows of color A for WideStripes pattern or 14 rowsof color A for Narrow Stripes pattern.

Materials

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Cascade

220 Superwash

(100%superwash wool; 220 yd. [201m] per 100 g ball), #855Maroon (color A), 1 skein, and#821 Daffodil (color B), 1 skein

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Or similar yarn that knits tospecified gauge: worsted-weight wool or wool-blendyarn:

Wide Stripes version:

About 90yd. [82 m] each of color A andcolor B

Narrow Stripes version:

About120 yd. [110 m] of color A and40 yd. [36.5 m] of color B

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US 6 [4 mm] needles

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Tapestry needle

Gauge

20 sts and 36 rows = 4" [10 cm] ingarter st, using size 6 [4 mm] nee-dles

Note:

Gauge isn’t terribly impor-tant in this simple scarf. You caneasily adjust the number of stitches for a different gauge yarn:Cast on more stitches to use afiner yarn or fewer stitches to usea heavier yarn.

Finished Size

Width: 2" [5 cm]Length: About 60" [152.5 cm] ordesired length

Charmed Knits: Projects for Fans of Harry Potter

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