Emily Ross explains in her pattern that Haruni means “grandmother” in the elven language of Tolkien, so this one is for my grandmother for her special birthday coming up.  The original pattern is so beautiful, especially the leaf edging.  I was most taken with many of the versions on Ravelry with just a plain stockinette center, but wanted to make a scarf that really highlighted the edging.

What I came up with is a scarf, provisionally cast on and worked in the round using just the edging chart.  Then the center stitches are picked up again and grafted together.  The trickiest part is working the u-turn ends of the pattern.  Here I used the technique for the point of the shawl but used two stitches extra, treating each as one would knit the “center” stitch of the shawl.  It works quite nicely, leaving a rosette of leaves at each end.  Although it’s a lot of stitches to handle, there are very few rounds as the scarf is basically worked lengthwise.

Any edging pattern that can make the 90º turn of a shawl can make the 180º turn of the end of the scarf with some added math.  This is definitely a technique that I plan on using in the future…

2010.06.28 18:38:24 | Posted in 2010, All, Knitting
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