This Friday, I’m proud to say that I finished the Harry Potter scarf I’ve been working on since January! This is my third time doing one of these.  This one is for a friend-of-a-friend who is going through some tough times … I have to admit, I had a hard time motivating myself to do yet more stockinette, but I designated this project as my penance knitting about two weeks ago, and that did the trick.  Poof, done!

Project: Harry Potter Scarf

Designer: (I copied from the movie stills)

Available: short-hand directions below!

Yarn: Knit Picks Swish Worsted in Hollyberry and Gold

Short directions:

• Cast on 70 sts (use Judy’s Magic Cast On)
• YO at both edges on first round — this will be the sit of your slipped-st edge
• work in the round in stockinette, slipping the edge sts every other round (except, after a 3-row CC stripe, just knit the MC around with no slipped sts)
• Stripes like this:
  • 26 rounds MC
  • 3 rounds CC
  • 6 rounds MC
  • 3 rounds CC
• repeat stripes 13 times, then do 26 more rounds of MC
• end by ktog the edge sts on one last round, then kitchener together
• fringe like this:
  • 12-in strands
  • each bundle: 3 MC and 1 CC
  • attach every other st