I joined the other day looking for some help with some questions about my possibly overly ambitious knitting dreams. 
I saw the image from this page online and wanted to make it, but preferably incorporated into a blanket not as a scarf! I traced it back to this page and the posts here say that it was done using double knitting. I have never done any double knitting or any other kind of color work.
How hard is double knitting really? I have looked up some tutorials online and everyone seems to be claiming that it isn’t, but I feel like I might not be getting the whole story.
Someone else suggested that I use duplicate knitting?
This very site, knittinghelp.com, has free videos on many knitting techniques. This page has videos on the following techniques:
–double knitting
–Fair Isle/stranded color work
–intarsia color work
Having looked at the MtG scarf, you’ll definitely need some of these techniques! 
Maybe just one, maybe more; I’m personally uncertain re. the limits of double knitting.
Thanks DogCatMom! If you look through the comments at one point she says she used double knitting, which would make sense according to the picture.
At first I was leaning toward the duplicate knitting idea because I have done cross stitching before and it seemed easy, but double knitting seems like it would come out so much nicer, and reversible!!!
Try double knitting out on something small like a potholder just to see how it works. It is fun to see the pattern emerge on both sides of the piece but it is [I]slow[/I] to knit. That scarf pattern would be fun because of the color and pattern changes.
Yea, I am kind of worried that if I do the double knitting it would be so slow I would end up giving up on it. I think I am going to try experimenting with it though!! I still don’t COMPLETELY understand how it comes out two sides instead of a big long line. ???
Essentially you’re working both sides at the same time. Do give it a try just to see how it works.
Experienced double knitters who create absolutely unbelievable two sided projects complain that it’s slow…or at least one I know does. If you decide to double knit it, expect it to be around for a while and plan on doing other, smaller projects too. A never ending project is great as long as I can have other things that do get finished.
So my preferred method to pretty much everything is to jump right in so I ended up buying a ball of black yarn and a ball of blue since the blue symbol is the most basic. And I am proud to say I have created a couple of rows of plushy soft double thick blue on one side black on the other. It was not anywhere near as hard as I thought it was going to be. People made it sound like holding both yarns would be a problem but it really wasn’t for me. We will see what happens when I get farther along!
Also, just saying, if someone asked me how I made it come out two sides instead of one long piece I could not explain that to them if my life depended on it. Lol.
Good luck! It sounds like your off to a great start!
So now I am hitting a wall trying to come up with a chart for the symbols. At first I was just going to make a chart by trying to count the stitches from the images in the link I posted before ( http://imgur.com/gallery/oqvc ) … but that is turning out to be way harder than I thought it was going to be. 
What is the best way to make a chart?
#Edit
Got some graph paper and diligently counted stitched. One down, now I just have to worry about counting the other 4. haha.
I don’t know if these are the best ways but here are some suggestions for converting a photo to a chart:
http://domestikgoddess.com/3-easy-ways-to-chart-a-knitting-pattern/
Thanks salmonmac! The graph paper actually worked super well. Also I pulled the picture up on the computer which made it so much easier to see the stitches! I wish I wasn’t going to work so I could work on it.
Maybe just one, maybe more; I’m personally uncertain re. the limits of double knitting.