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Plaid Super Scarf

September 7, 2016 4 Comments

Knit this super cozy scarf throughout the fall to keep you warm this winter! | Plaid Super Scarf by Heidi Gustad for AllFreeKnitting

all images via AllFreeKnitting

My newest pattern was released this week online at AllFreeKnitting. Measuring in at one foot by 12 feet, the Plaid Super Scarf lives up to its name! The Craft Yarn Council launched a new initiative yesterday for fall, calling on yarn crafters to jump on this season’s hottest trend – the super scarf. Super scarves are fun – they can be wrapped around (and around) you for limitless layering potential when it’s mega cold, and they can double as a wrap shawl or throw. After all, you’re putting in the time to knit ’em, why not make the finished piece do double duty?

Knit this super cozy scarf throughout the fall to keep you warm this winter! | Plaid Super Scarf by Heidi Gustad for AllFreeKnitting

The pattern for my Plaid Super Scarf is available for free on AllFreeKnitting. It features an edge that alternates between colors A and B for some added elegance inspired by Latvian braids. The repeating plaid motif used throughout is a fun one. It uses slipped stitches and the simplest stranded colorwork to create a knit plaid that looks like it was created on a weaving loom.

Knit this super cozy scarf throughout the fall to keep you warm this winter! | Plaid Super Scarf by Heidi Gustad for AllFreeKnitting

New to knitting plaid? I’ve got a video to help you master this technique – and if you tackle the super scarf, you’ll for sure have it down after knitting twelve feet of it!

Are you up to the challenge? Right now it’s a bit warm in my neck of the woods, but it’s the perfect time to cast on this bad boy and have yourself a gorgeous piece to wear for winter. As a designer, I’m always crafting projects for a season 6 or more months out. My deadline for this wooly scarf was mid-July! So as usual, I was the weirdo hauling 6 skeins of wool yarn around Chicago as I plugged away on my piece. The highlight had to have been working on the Plaid Super Scarf in the middle of a music festival – here’s the proof!

Being a knit designer means you get to be the weirdo knitting wool plaid in the middle of July at a music festival. 💁🏼😆🇺🇸✂️🙌🏻 #handsoccupied #lifeway #kefir #p4k #pitchfork #knitting #knit #knitdesign #placesyoucanknit #knitonthego

A photo posted by Heidi Gustad (@handsoccupied) on Jul 16, 2016 at 3:46pm PDT

Casting on a ginormous knitting or crochet project might seem a bit daunting, but another reason to try my or any one of the other super scarves released this week is your pocketbook. The Plaid Super Scarf was designed with 6 skeins of Patons Classic Wool Roving, which retails for around $7. Even without coupons, you can make yourself this whole scarf for $42! Compare that to the retail price of the average store bought, haute couture super scarf, and you’ve got yourself a fashion staple for a steal.

Knit this super cozy scarf throughout the fall to keep you warm this winter! | Plaid Super Scarf by Heidi Gustad for AllFreeKnitting

If you make your own super scarf, don’t forget to use the hashtag #superscarf to share progress pics with other yarn crafters. 

Filed Under: Free Patterns, Knitting, Knitting & Crochet Tagged With: allfreeknitting, craft yarn council, free pattern, latvian braid, plaid super scarf, super scarf, video tutorial, woven plaid

About Heidi

Heidi Gustad is a craft book author, designer & creator specializing in yarn crafts like knitting, crochet, latch hook & macramé. Her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now.

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  1. Pattymac

    September 8, 2016 at 11:58 am

    I also love super long scarves!!! I love your term “Super Scarves!” This one certainly is. I’m never tried that stitch pattern, so thanks for the tutorial.

    Reply
    • Heidi

      September 10, 2016 at 5:31 pm

      Yeah, it’s so fun to knit! Really a different technique than one you come across every day, which is lovely. :)

      Reply
  2. Christy

    October 19, 2016 at 3:10 pm

    This is the cutest pattern, I think that I will start out with a swatch and build up to the super scarf.

    Reply
  3. Melody

    December 1, 2016 at 10:15 am

    Love this! I can’t wait to treat myself to some gorgeous Patons and make it. Thank you for sharing!

    Reply

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Wow! I am floored by the awesome response to the S Wow! I am floored by the awesome response to the Spiral Hill Sweater Vest. Thank you. 🙏🏻❤️ If you love this pattern & didn’t know already, we are going to be doing a knit along (KAL) from October 1-29 featuring this spooky sweater vest & lots of tutorials, especially for the intarsia part. 
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Pictured: My Spiral Hill Sweater Vest pattern from the new Nightmare Before Christmas knitting book by @tanisknits. Model is wearing size 1 with 2” of positive ease, knit in @brooklyntweed Imbue Worsted. Vest images via @insighteditions 
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At long last! I can share the Spiral Hill Sweater At long last! I can share the Spiral Hill Sweater Vest, my contribution to the new book Disney Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas: The Official Knitting Guide to Halloween Town and Christmas Town, out now! 🎃💀 
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I’m hosting a knit along (KAL) October 1-29 for anyone who’d like to knit this vest along with a group & learn a little about intarsia while we’re at it. I’ve got weekly tutorials planned to help you knit this worsted weight sweater vest, and there’s a prize package giveaway at the end for KAL participants too. Details are on my site - you know where to find the 🔗 I think. 😉
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Book by @tanisknits 
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Yarn @brooklyntweed Imbue 
Find it wherever fine books are sold. 
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Since there was some interest in stills of my WIPs Since there was some interest in stills of my WIPs closet after this weekend’s quick tutorial, here are few. ✂️ The tutorial is one post back in my feed as a video.
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As you can see, I didn’t worry about the wire hangers all being perfectly uniform, but it doesn’t matter to me. Also, this closet holds a lot! Despite that, it is already at capacity. Since the hanging bags don’t appear to be recyclable, I want to reuse them as long as possible. Who knows, maybe this will be a way to limit my WIPs? 😅
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P.s. In the third photo you can see how I use this system to store the original swatches, scraps, yarn ball bands, & notes from a design project all together. 
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How to convert a closet into WIPs storage with jus How to convert a closet into WIPs storage with just a few supplies ✂️
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When I was a librarian, we would use these hanging bags to circulate books with audiobook CDs. They came to mind when I wanted to develop a filing cabinet-like system for my differently-sized WIPs. To fit in my studio closet, a standard bedroom closet, they just needed custom hangers. 🤙🏻 
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HOW TO MAKE THE HANGERS
1. Carefully cut approx. a 9” (23 cm) length of flexible 3 mm aluminum wire.
2. Near the end of a large knitting needle or dowel, wrap the wire around it as you would a twist tie. 
3. Bend the other end into a hook shape, perpendicular to the circle shape you just created. 
4. Hang like a hanger in a closet, as shown. 
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It’s time for the monthly review and giveaway! T It’s time for the monthly review and giveaway! This go around, get to know two new sister yarns from @manosyarnsusa, Marla and Sami, and enter to win a skein of each to try for yourself. 
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What makes these yarns sisters is that, while dyed differently, they’re the same weight and come in intentionally coordinating color palettes. For my review, I opted for a sky-inspired combo of Sami in Natural and Marla in Nube. 🌧️ 
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Check out the full review & enter the giveaway at the link in my bio. 
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