Woman standing in front of a lake looking down and wearing a striped hand knit scarf.

Woman standing in front of a lake with trees reflected in the water; she's wearing a long bulky knit scarf.

Woman standing three-quarters away from camera looking over her shoulder at viewer; she has a striped scarf flung over her shoulder.

Full length side view of woman standing in front of a body of water with a very long scarf handing down in front and back.

Woman hugging herself and looking off into the distance; she's wearing a mint green and white striped scarf wrapped around her neck.

Woman looking at camera crossing a striped garter stitch scarf over her chest with fall trees in the background.

Detail shot of the fringe and textured garter stitch pattern of a bulky knit scarf.

Glacial Slide Scarf

$10 CAD

Buy Now

Add to Cart

View Cart

No shaping, no purling, this ultra simple scarf shows that you can make lovely things using only the knit stitch and flat knitting. Colors are changed using a “swing needle” style, a simple technique that takes advantage of circular needles, so each color is only worked one row at a time.

Also available on

Construction

The Glacial Slide Scarf is worked flat length-wise in a modified garter stitch. Each garter row is knit twice by sliding stitches across a circular needle to work again with contrast color, before turning work to repeat with each color. Includes optional two-color fringe.

Stitches used: Knit.

Sizes + Finished Measurements

6 x 62″ / 15 x 157.5 cm, not including fringe.

Yarn

Super bulky yarn in two colours; 132 yd / 120 m each C1 and C2.

Shown in Knit Picks Mighty Stitch Super Bulky (80% Acrylic, 20% Superwash Wool; 44 yards/100g), Mint and White.

Substitution Notes

Look for a super bulky yarn that knits up to 2.5 sts/inch on 10mm (US 15) needles. You may also combine two or more strands of lighter weight yarn to make up the gauge. Swatch for the gauge and fabric drape you want.

These other super bulky yarns by Knit Picks would be great options.

Gauge

7.5 sts and 16 rows = 4″ (10 cm) over stitch pattern, blocked.

Needles + Notions

12 mm (US 17) 32″ (80 cm) Circular Needle.

Skills

Swing knitting, long tail bind off.