I am SO impressed. Hardcore and Ev have taken to this new project with gusto. Bravo to the brave souls for whom fibre is synonymous with adventure!

Here’s a few tips to make the scarf even more fabulous!

Slip the first stitch of every right side row purlwise.
This would count as one of the eight (or 6 or 4) you’ll work to get to the wrap and turn point. Makes a nicer edge to the piece, that’s all.

Make the surface as smooth as a baboon’s ass by knitting that hideous wrap-and-turn bar you see on the right side.
There’s three of them: around the 9th stitch, 7th stitch and 5th stitch. What I do is when I get to the stitch I wrapped the yarn around, I don’t insert the needle ABOVE where the little bar is but UNDER it. I use my thumbnail to stretch it out of the way until the knit stitch is complete and BASTA! The ugly little wrap bar is gone as gone can be, banished to the back of the work for all eternity.

I noticed that ugly little bar when mum was making the scarf according to the instructions I posted and marveled that the one’s I made didn’t have it. Then I remembered that I called an audible and make this wee change which makes a big difference (to me it does anyway; mum likes the look of the bars so whatever).

It doesn’t really matter how you get that bar out of the way, just so you can lift it in order to knit it AND the stitch it’s wrapped around to make the RS surface flawless and perfect.

Size matters. So does fibre.
The twisty scarf will have more or less torque (twist, turn, what have you) based on how tight the fabric is knitted, the choice of yarn and the size of the needles used. Small needles + tight knitting + a stiffer wool yarn (like Fisherman, for sale at Michaels) will produce a torque so rigid you could use the scarf as an ice auger. Slippery acrylic yarn (like Bernat Satin) + loose knitting + larger (5mm+) needles will give you a scarf that’s floppy with less twist. I used merino wool on 4.5 mm and knit with a medium-to-tight tension to produce the twisty scarves for sale at Knotty.

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