A Great Scarf You Can Knit in a Day (Really)

I’m not saying I recommend this course of action, but I did recently learn that it is possible to knit a scarf — not even with bulky yarn! — in a day.

These are the things you do when a friend suddenly announces they are moving to Iowa.

I had this pattern I had printed out a long time ago, the Malabrigo Waffles Scarf from Yarn Dreams, which looked squishy and fun and fast to knit.

I used some wool and camel blend from my stash and I knit all. day. long. As much as I could. I cast off right before we headed out to goodbye dinner. I actually made mine a little narrower to speed along the knitting, and I think it came out just fine.

I’m not sure how long mine ended up, but it was at least five feet, and it was squishy and warm and pretty and the perfect way to send love 500-some miles away.

While the moral of the story should be that you shouldn’t try to knit a scarf in a day (at least a worsted weight one), I hope this lets you know you still have plenty of time to do some serious knitting for gifts or otherwise.

I’d love to know what’s on your needles!

[Photo: Yarn Dreams]

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn.

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small.

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches.

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come.

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you.

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?).

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry.

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns.

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]

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