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| mochyn |
Curly knitted scarfAnyone got a pattern? What I'm after is a kind of spirally scarf, knitted: can't think of the proper term.Help! |
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| Tay |
Perhaps I'm being dense, but I don't really know what you mean.  A scarf that 'coils' up when flat, into a circle, so that when you pull it out it is like a properly peeled apple? Or something that just looks like it is a spiral, but is more like a zig-zag?
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| mochyn |
I think the word I need os 'corkscrew', Tay. So that there's a sort of straight line running up through the curly bits.
That probably made no more sense than the original, eh? I'm having word problems here. |
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| bernie-woman |
The only ones I can find are in the 'fur' type yarns but is this the kind of thing you are after?
http://www.straw.com/cpy/patterns/scarves/bebop-party-corkscrew.html |
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| bernie-woman |
and another
http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/freeKnittingPatternRuffleScarf.asp |
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| mochyn |
That's the sort of overall effect, Bernie-woman, but I wonder if there's a way of doing it the other way along, that is the working across rather than along the scarf. There must be a way with short rows.
But how? |
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| Tay |
You've got me intrigued now! I've been searching Ravelry and other sites, but can only find patterns with hundreds of stitches on the needles... Not very manageable at all. | ||
| marigold |
You might find something on http://www.curlywhirlies.blogspot.com/ | ||
| sally_in_wales |
what about using the method you'd use for a circular or petally dishcloth, but just keep working segments ad infinitim, would that give a whirly ruffled effect? |
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| dottyspots |
The way the corkscrew spiral scarfs are worked you cast on a number of stitches then increase into every stitch, work a row, increase into every stitch, work a row, etc. - yes you end up with hundreds of stitches on a needle and it takes forever to cast off (in fact I attempted to make one and it's still sat on the needles with around 100 stitches still to cast off, I just can't be bothered  )
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| Northern_Lad |
What would happen if you knit all the way, but add a stitch to one end and cast off from the other each row?
That way the thing would curl round, but with the offset stitching you'd not get a tube. not a straight one anyway. |
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| dottyspots |
My head hurts slightly thinking about that, but I can see where you're going with it and there is something niggling inside that is saying that I'd like to find out how that works. First I've got a rather long list of stuff I really *should* get done though. | ||
| mochyn |
That sounds eminently doable. I'll have a go... |
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| Slim |
Could you make a double-helix? I'd love a DNA scarf...
(IIRC, DNA makes one full revolution to the right for every ten base pairs...  )
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| KrisWW |
http://www.twosheep.com/helix/ http://kimberlychapman.com/crafts/knit-patterns-dna.html And one that can only be accessed by Ravelry members - I can't pull the url off of the pdf alone. Well, not this time of night I can't. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rosalind# I shall now put the knitting threads down and go to bed... |
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| mochyn |
Those are all fun, Kris. Fortunately I'm a fellow Raveler!
I/m going with Sally's suggestion of a kind of endless circle and it's coming on fine. I'll try to work out a 3D DNA scarf after the shows have finished though... |