NSG Snake Scarf

While I did turn the heel of my sock, I spent most of my knitting time obsessively on the Noro Silk Garden scarf over the weekend. Last night I finished it:

It was like a wild affair. Absorbing but short-lived. Possible to ignore flaws because they weren’t to be put up with forever. A taste of something pretty but costly.

Well, that’s what I imagine a wild affair might be like, anyway. Not been there, myself. Not particularly regretful about that, either. I much prefer long-term relationships with pretty and comfortable, reliable yarns myself.

I made changes to the beginning and end of the scarf. At the beginning, as I mentioned previously, I knit a triangle of the same shape as those in the middle of the scarf. Then I picked up stitches along the bottom, alternating knitwise and purlwise, and then cast off knitwise and purlwise. This drew the triangle down into a curve to match the rest of the scarf.

At the end of the scarf I purled 1 then ssked, then p1,k1 on the reverse, to make an edge that would splay out the previous triangle to match the rest of the scarf.

Though the pattern was easy to memorise, I never got bored with it. I’d like to make another one of these one day. It was a lot of fun to knit. For anyone who’d like to try it, the pattern I used is here.

8 thoughts on “NSG Snake Scarf

  1. Looks beautiful!
    I have some of the yarn (different colour). Should I check for issues like you did?
    Haven’t used that kind yet, bought two balls for felted clogs.

  2. I’d definitely recommend checking balls of NSG for knots. And I found the way the balls come wound seemed to make the yarn tangle really easily, so rewinding them into cakes helped fix that.

    A ball winder is great for speedy checking for knots, but it also allows you to see the colours going through the whole cake. And you can start from the middle or outside, too.

  3. The scarf came up so well, how lovely to have a project to inspire your weekend! Are you happy with the Noro?

  4. Beautiful scarf!

    In general, you need to check most Noro yarns for knots. I’ve run into quite a few in Noro Kureyon.

  5. It’s the best scarf pattern – quick – yet interesting…..glad it inspired you – that yarn looks like it was made for that pattern.

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