...BUT I totally hit the jackpot with my finished infinity scarf!
It was a fairly simple pattern, but it is so gorgeous and looks very complicated (at least to my untrained, novice eye). I used a 5 sts = 1" US 7 (4.5mm) gauge yarn in a mustard color, 3 skeins of 100m/50 g. It's 30% Bowlder (Jadeite) fiber, 50% fine wool, and 20% silk, which drew my attention because the texture of the yarn was pretty luxurious. I used 8 mm knitting needles with this yarn to get that looser effect.
Instructions:
Cast on a multiple of 3 stitches to the desired width of your choice. (I did 42 stitches). I then K2, P1 (I'm not familiar with knitting speak, so in lamens term, I knit two stitches, then purled one stitch all the way across), for every row until the desired length. I wanted to be able to loop the scarf once around my neck and still have the bottom loop hit about 1/3 down my torso, which needed all three skeins. I would check my progress by holding the scarf against me to make sure the length is correct. To complete the loop, I twisted the scarf several times before attaching the two ends so that it's permanently twisted. To combine, I left about 18 inches of yarn at the end and started single crocheting the two ends together, but there was not enough yarn leftover for that. So, I just used the crochet hook to wrap the yarn through the two ends, kind of like stitching. BUT that's very unorthodox. I found a site with more legit ways to combine two knitted pieces together:
Enjoy!
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