Kusha Kusha Scarf - Diagram

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!   

Comments

[Terry]

Thanks for getting us the pattern! Now to hop over to your Habu yarn selections!! Will you carry the soon-to-be published English version of Setsuko Torii's (not sure if spelling is correct) book?

[purl bee]

Hi Terry,
We absolutely will be carrying it! Not sure when it will be out, but you'll definitely find it and hear about it here! --Joelle

[Louise]

The scarf looks fabulous,
Do you knit with the wire all the way through. I have just started knitting wire jewelry so have some 34guage wire. would this be ok?

[Marjorie]

May I suggest you provide a "Print" version of your patterns and other information we choose to copy so we don't waste paper on comments and store information. Or...do you have a geek guru who can tell me how to eliminate what I don't want to print? Love your store...wish I lived closer. Marjorie

[purl bee]

Hi Marjorie,
We're aware of the printing issues with our patterns and are working on a solution. For the moment we recommend that readers copy and paste the patterns into a text document and delete anything extraneous to the pattern before printing. Hope this helps.

[Angela]

About printing: you select (highlight) just the text you want to print. Then in the print dialogue box, under "Print Range" you click on "Selection" This should just print what you selected. I'm not sure if this is printer-specific or operating system specific, but the above works for me, running Windows Vista Home and an HP Photosmart C6180 printer.