Saturday, September 10, 2011

Lacy Tunisian Scarf

I wanted to really showcase this pretty ribbon-like yarn, but I only had 2 skeins (77 yards each). I didn't like how the yarn looked in a chain, plus I wanted to make the most of the little yarn I had, so I tried out a few different variations on a Tunisian stitch. I think this is a great stitch to show off a pretty yarn rather than emphasizing the stitch pattern itself.
You can make this as wide and long as you like, I used 15 stitches across and kept going until I ran out of yarn.
Step 1
Chain as many as you like for the scarf's width, add one chain extra.
Insert hook into the back loop of the 2nd stitch from the hook, yarn over, pull a loop through, then chain one and leave the loop on the hook.
*Insert hook into the next chain's back loop, yarn over, pull a loop through, then chain one and leave loop on hook.
Repeat from * as many times as needed to get all the back loops of the chain worked (for my 15 stitch scarf, I chained 16 and then had 15 loops on my hook).
Step 2
Yarn over and pull through one loop, *yarn over and pull through 2 loops, repeat from * until only one loop remains on the hook.
Chain one
Rather than going through the vertical part of the stitch as you do for the simple Tunisian stitch, you will instead insert your hook into the very top horizontal part of the stitch. This part looks a lot like the back loop in a chain and should be directly above the vertical part.
* Insert hook into the top horizontal loop (right above the next vertical) in the next stitch, chain one and leave loop on hook, repeat from * until you have all the loops back on your hook (for mine, I had 15 loops on my hook).
Step 3:
Yarn over and pull through one loop, *yarn over and pull through 2 loops, repeat from * until only one loop remains on the hook.
Chain one.
* Insert hook into the top horizontal loop (right above the next vertical) in the next stitch, chain one and leave loop on hook, repeat from * until you have all the loops back on your hook (for mine, I had 15 loops on my hook).
Step 4:
Repeat Step 3 until scarf is at your desired length.