Three strand linen stitch?

I’m trying to figure out how this girl did this scarf. She’s says she did it with the linen stitch but used three different strands of yarn. But she doesn’t give any instructions so I’m confused as to how she used the three strands. Is this double knitting? Anyone have any ideas?

http://donaknits.blogspot.com/2012/03/cerus-scarf.html

I think that iknitwithcatfur has a video about 3 color linen stitch on youtube. My internet is slow tonight so I’ll leave you to search for it. Sorry 'bout that. HTH

That’s it! Thank you so much! :slight_smile:

Good, you found it. I’m so glad. I’d love to see what your scarf is like, post a picture if you want when you get going and/or finished. A link to what you’re knitting is always nice too.

The linked post discussed using 3 skeins to make her linen-stitch scarf. This is different from using 3 strands.

How?

Using 3 strands means that the knitter is holding 3 strands and treating them as one the entire time s/he is knitting. Using 3 skeins means that the colors are changed out on a regular schedule–maybe at the end of each row, maybe every second row, every third row, whatever the design seems to require.

I hope you work it out and make your own beautiful scarf! The one photographed in natural and white is just yummy. :slight_smile:

I’m glad you caught that. Thanks.

Linen stitch produces such a lovely fabric. The scarf you linked to uses 2 strands of the camel color and one strand of the cream. It’s like this videoexcept that 2 of the strands are the same color. It’s done that way so that the working end of yarn is available to knit with and not at the wrong end of the work.