This is the perfect after Christmas scarf – pretty and colorful enough to get you through the awful gray darkness of January and February.

Not that there’s anything wrong with winter, or anything ever. In Prairieopolis, we are only ever perky.

But!! If people from other places, people with weak constitutions, are gloomy, you can knit this scarf and give it to them. Or just wear it when they are around to cheer them up and encourage them to take up knitting.

I tell people who ask, “It is super easy to knit! For real!” and they don’t believe me, but it is. The whole pattern is below. Marmosets could knit this scarf and so could you. If you need help, visit knittinghelp.com.

Lettuce Scarf

By Elizabeth Prose. Published in the Madison Knitter’s Guild Newsletter, October 2006

SIZE: One size

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS: Width: 7 inches, Length: 64 inches

MATERIALS

• [MC] 220-330 yards worsted weight self-striping yarn (I used Lang’s Mille Colori; 2 skeins)
• [CC] 229 yards lace weight mohair yarn (I used Rowan Kid Silk Haze; 1 skein)
• 1 pair US #9/5.5mm 9-inch straight needles
• 1 32-inch (or longer) US #6/4mm circular needle
• Tapestry needle
• Stitch markers

GAUGE
16 sts/ 32 rows = 4” in garter stitch using MC.

DIRECTIONS
With MC and size 9 needles, cast on 3 stitches using the long tail cast on method. Begin increase rows. Knit to last stitch, knit into the front and back of the last stitch (kf&b). Repeat this row for a total of 28 rows. There will be 31 stitches.

Next, work as follows:
Row 1 K to last 3 sts, k2tog, k1.
Row 2 K to last st, kf&b.
Repeat these two rows until work measures 62 inches along the longer side.

Then, begin decrease rows. Knit to last 3 sts, k2tog, k1. Repeat this row until there are 3 stitches remaining. Next row: slip 2 stitches together as if to knit, knit the next stitch, and pass the 2 slipped stitches over the one just knit. Bind off.

With CC and size 6 circular needles, start at one corner and pick up one stitch for every row around entire edge of scarf. Place a stitch marker and join to knit in the round.

Row 1 Knit into the front and back of every stitch.
Row 2-5 Knit. Bind off very loosely.

FINISHING
Weave in ends. Block to measurements.