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[primroseburrows]

I've fallen madly in love with this scarf and have decided I need desperately to make it. The problem is, I don't really know where and how to start. As generous as the designer is with her posting of the charts for the letters, she doesn't give a pattern for the scarf as a whole. So, knitters on my flist, I need your help.

Does anyone know how to incorporate these charts into a scarf? I don't think it would be terribly difficult, but I'm not sure how to start, how much yarn I'd need, etc. Help?

I want to knit this bad enough that I'm thinking about finding a LYS that offers a bring-your-own-project class. Isn't it gorgeous?

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[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Do you think intarsia would be better than stranded knitting? The designer says she uses stranded knitting throughout most of it and only uses intarsia in a couple of areas.

I don't have much interest in colour knitting (I'm a cable addict myself) other than that it's really pretty, but this scarf is so beautiful I can't not at least try. Besides, a new skill is a new skill, and intarsia doesn't look that hard, just time-consuming with all the bobbins and such. Stranded knitting is pretty basic, it seems, except I'd imagine it takes up more yarn than does intarsia.

I think I'd like to make this in black with grey lettering, and then the red. I know red, white, and blue are symbolic and all, but I think black would make a classier scarf. And yeah, I'm definitely gonna check out the LYS. If I can find one close enough.

[alexisyael.livejournal.com]

I have no idea of how difficult stranded vs intarsia would be! But I think you could do it!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I think I could do it, but I probably will need a coach. If songdog didn't live so far away, I'd ask her. She can whip up a sweater without a pattern on impulse and thinks nothing of doing those intricate Norwegian colour workings. She's my knitting hero. :)