We would like to give special thanks to our friends at Habu Textiles, who have allowed us to share this pattern with you!

Habu Textiles patterns rely on diagrams, which are a visual way to represent a knitting pattern.  We know that for some of you this diagram looks less like knitting and more like a mysterious geometry lesson!  Standard American directions follow below, but if you are curious about learning to read Japanese knitting diagrams, here is how you do it.

Read the diagram from the bottom up. This pattern is worked in Stockinette Stitch (knit on the right side, purl on the wrong side).

The diagram is telling us that the bottom width of the scarf is 8 inches wide and consists of 68 stitches. For this part of the scarf you will work with both yarns, A+B and US size 8 needles.  Slightly up the diagram are two grey boxes with some numbers in them:

6-1-10

(-10)

This means, work 6 rows, decreasing one stitch on each end of the 6th row 10 times.  This will leave you with 48 stitches. This section will be 60 rows long, and will measure approximately 9.2 inches in length, and when you are through, 5.6 inches wide.  Continue on the 48 stitches with your size 8 needles for 200 rows, or 30.2 inches more (for a total of 40 inches).

At 40 inches, you will drop yarn A and continue on with only Yarn B.  Switch to US size 6 needles and work 12 rows.  Then switch to US size 4 needles and work 24 rows.  Switch to US size 3 needles to work 94 rows (or 22 inches more) to complete the scarf.  Bind off and felt scarf.  

Mystery solved!