Between these 2 patterns…
I met some knitters the other night and they invited me to their group on Sunday. I wanted to cast on for a simple scarf (to use some Malabrigo Silky Merino I got last week) that I could work on without paying too much attention. I’d already tried My So Called Scarf, but it wasn’t all that simple. Also, I wanted something reversible.
So I copied down a couple of stitch patterns on a Post it note and got going. The first was for the Mistake Rib Scarf, which was so simple I didn’t bother to print it out, just wrote down the one line pattern: (K2P2)* K3. Except I wrote K2P2K3. It seemed wrong when I got to the coffee shop, but I cast on anyway and it is coming out a wide garter stitch pattern with one row stockinette ribs. Actually I kind of like it.
When I got home, I looked up the actual pattern (DUH!) and cast that on with a different ball. I think I like the mistake scarf better than the mistake rib scarf (both are reversible)… What do you think? There is a superfluous column of purl stitches in the mistake scarf, so I would rework the pattern as: K2P1K3 (ending on the K3), but otherwise I think I’d keep it the same. Also realized I’m going to have to alternate balls since the 1st one has way more yellow tones…
The other thing to consider is that this is for my stepmom, and I already made Scrunchable Scarf for my Dad, which looks a lot like the Mistake Rib Scarf. It would probably be better to have them be more different…