Fans with Flair: Scarf by Marsha White

Fans with Flair: Scarf

This pattern is available from ravelry.com for $6.00.

“Feather and Fan has been adapted in this pattern, creating the well known fan shape in both the scarf and hand warmer patterns. Larger ‘fans’ on the beginning and ending borders of the scarf create a feminine flare.

“The scarf is worked in 2 halves, with the second half reversing the placement of the decreases, so that the 2 halves mirror each other… . A “prevelance of purls” on the right side of the scarf helps to create a fabric that lays flat.“ - from The Needle Arts Book Shop on-site pattern description.

Recommended for Intermediate to Experienced Knitters

The scarf pattern is written for 4 yarn weights, so you can choose between light and lacy, fine fingering, cosy DK, or extra warm worsted yarns. The instructions are provided in both charted and written form.

Gauge:
Laceweight in patt: 34 sts / 35 rows = 4’’
Fingering in patt: 26.5 sts / 28 rows = 4’’
DK in patt: 23 sts / 23 rows = 4’’
Worsted in patt: 19 sts / 19 rows = 4’’

Scarf Yarn Requirements and suggested needle sizes:

Laceweight:
1 x 50 gr, 350 m / 390 yds per ball, 3 mm / 3 US

Fingering:
2 x 50 gr, 160 m / 175 yds per ball, 4 mm / 6 US

DK:
3 x 50 gr, 105 m / 115 yds per ball, 5 mm / 8 US
Fiddlesticks Knitting Silken Merino
(3) balls for Scarf (342 yards total)

Worsted:
2 x 50 gr, 105 m / 115 yds per ball, 5.5 mm / 9 US
Fiddlesticks Knitting Luscious Tweed
(2) balls for Scarf

Note that for the Worsted weight version, the scarf is slimmer in width, so requires less yarn.

Pattern includes directions for both scarf and hand warmers.

Available for download from Patternfish.