The Dog Hair Scarf

Yes - It is just what the name says it is. Well, at least partially. The brown yarn is hand-spun by a friend of a friend. It is made from the collected and cleaned hair from her dog.

I was asked by the friend to make it into a scarf - so I did. I used the dog hair yarn - which was a little varied in size for the ends. Then I used a thinner silk yarn for the body. I think the scarf looks good with the mix of thick and thin yarn, but would look good using only one yarn too.

This is the pattern I came up with for it. Be patient with me - I am still very very new to knitting.

The Dog Hair Scarf

size 8 US needles

a thick yarn

a thinner yarn

Top

CO - 21 sts of the thicker yarn with size 8 US needle

1 - K1, YO, K3, SSKP, K3, YO, K1, YO, K3, SSKP, K3, YO, K1

2 - Purl to end

3 - K2, YO, K2, SSKP, K2, YO, K3, YO, K2, SSKP, K2, YO, K2

4 - Purl to end

5 - K3, YO, K1, SSKP, K1, YO, K5, YO, K1, SSKP, K1, YO, K3

6 - Purl to end

7 - K4, YO, SSKP, YO, K7, YO, SSKP, YO, K4

8 - Purl to end

repeat rows 1 - 8 two more times - making sure to end on a Purl row.

Scarf Body

switch to thinner yarn

1 - K2, YO, K2, SSKP, K2, YO, K3, YO, K2, SSKP, K2, YO, K2

2 - Purl to end

repeat rows 1 and 2 until the body id the desired length.

Bottom

switch back to the thicker yarn

1 - K4, YO, SSKP, YO, K7, YO, SSKP, YO, K4

2 - Purl to end

3 - K3, YO, K1, SSKP, K1, YO, K5, YO, K1, SSKP, K1, YO, K3

4 - Purl to end

5 - K2, YO, K2, SSKP, K2, YO, K3, YO, K2, SSKP, K2, YO, K2

6 - Purl to end

7 - K1, YO, K3, SSKP, K3, YO, K1, YO, K3, SSKP, K3, YO, K1

8 - Purl to end

repeat rows 1-8 two more times.

Bind off

Cut yarn and weave in ends.

Abbreviations:

YO - yarn over

SSKP - Slip two stitches, Knit the next stitch, Pass the two slipped stitches over the knit one.

Finding things that were once lost.

like this blog. found. not sure where it went. but now we are reunited.

I may post on here - infrequently.