Like Potato Chips

I am here to tell you that these Noro Striped Scarfs are like potato chips. You can’t knit just one!

Special thanks to my cute, furry model, Derf!

They’re a perfect knit for when you need something to do that doesn’t require any brain power.


They go quickly. I knit this one in a week.


And it’s just entirely too much fun to photograph this thing with my “real” camera (I’m a closet photographer. I love my point-and-shoot, but to me SLRs are “real” cameras)


On a sunny day, you can just play with the depth of focus and take a bunch of different shots focused on different parts of the scarf until your knees start to ache from kneeling on the flagstone walk. Or the scary talk-your-ear-off mailman pulls up to your chunk of the street. Whichever comes first.

Noro Striped Scarf, The Sequel

Pattern: Basic K1P1 ribbing, based off of Brooklyn Tweed’s recipe
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden
Colorways: 2 skeins of 269. One each of 245 and 289
Source: Bloomin Yarns
Needles: Lantern Moon Rosewood Destiny Circulars, US 8/5mm
Size: Around 75” long
Started: Christmas Day (25 Dec 2008)
Finished: New Year’s Day (1 Jan 2009)

I was on vacation from work and needed a project that required 0.0 units of brain power and this was perfect. A much faster and more enjoyable project using US 8 needles as opposed to the US 6 I used the last time. And I don’t pull out those Lantern Moon needles as often as I should. They’re awesome.