Stripe Fling! by Plucky Knitter Design

Stripe Fling!

Knitting
March 2026
both are used in this pattern
yarn held together
Lace
+ Fingering
= Worsted (9 wpi) ?
18 stitches and 24 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch
US 7 - 4.5 mm
270 yards (247 m)
One size: Approx. 60" wingspan x 13" deep at center.
English
This pattern is available for $7.00 USD
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Pattern comes free with the purchase of a kit; Kits available at Plucky Knitter beginning March 18, 2026.

It’s a stripe fling, just in time for spring…bring on the accessories, bring on the striping fun. This sweet little scarf offers two striping sequences for double the fun. Treat yourself to this engaging, lightweight, and quick knit, sure to be in heavy rotation as the weather warms!

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

One size: Approx. 60” / 152.5 cm long x 13” / 33 cm wide at center

YARN
Sport-weight yarn, or its equivalent, to knit at a worsted-weight gauge

Allover Stripe Pattern:
MC: 135 yds / 123 m
CC: 135 yds / 123 m

Skinny Stripe Pattern:
MC: 180 yds / 165 m
CC: 80 yds / 73 m

The yarn amounts listed above are for a single strand of yarn; if holding two yarns together, you will need the yardage listed for each yarn used.

Allover Stripe version shown held open in Plucky Knitter Legacy Fingering (100% Shaniko wool; 450 yds / 411 m per 100 g) held together with Plucky Knitter Plume Lace (74% baby suri alpaca, 26% silk; 328 / 300 m in 50 g): 1 skein each yarn in 2 colors, Drift (MC) and Scuttle (CC)

Skinny Stripe version shown in 2nd photo also in Legacy Fingering held together with Plucky Knitter Plume Lace : 1 skein each yarn in 2 colors, Showstopper (MC) and Lake Effect (CC)

Other Plucky bases we’ve tried and loved: Oxford held single, Pippi Fingering held single, Pippi Lace held double, Pippi Lace held together with Plume, Tandem held together with Plume, Tandem held double.

NEEDLES

  • US 7 (4.5 mm) needles, or size needed for gauge

NOTIONS

Two markers and a tapestry needle.

GAUGE

Approx. 18 sts / 24 rows = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette st, blocked.

NOTES

  • Scarf is knit from tip to tip sideways, increasing along one side to center, and then decreasing along same side to tip.
  • A 3-stitch selvedge is maintained at each edge, and markers are used to set these sts apart from the body of the scarf.
  • Before beginning, pick your stripe pattern, and follow directions for that pattern. Two stripe patterns are offered.