Edgar

Edgar is finished and is patiently awaiting fall weather so that I can adorn my neck with his beautiful colors. Although, with the type of summer that we've had, I could almost wear him now.

I just love the shape of the scarf. Amazingly, the technique to create such a shape is quite easy - just decreasing in the middle of each row (S1, K2tog, PSSO) every time on the right side. After so many rows, it naturally forms the shape you see above, and then you cast on stitches on both sides to start over again.

For the nice edge you slip 1 stitch purl-wise at the beginning of every row. The pattern can be found here: http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall05/PATTedgar.html .

I made mine quite a bit longer than the longest amount of squares called for in the pattern (I kept going until I used up both skeins of my noro silk garden, minus a bit of the black colored bits), but of course with this sort of pattern it doesn't really matter how long or short you make it - whatever suits you best.