Pattern: Long Skinny Scarf or What to Do with Your Novelty Yarn

I don't know how about you, but I sometimes (ha!) buy yarn not because I have a project in mind, but because it looks pretty in a store. 

Sounds familiar? 

Especially those novelty yarns: the fuzzies, the sparklies, the ladders and the ruffles. 

I'd think: Oh, I will find something to make with it - it is so pretty!.

Then I would come home and try this and that, and nothing really looks good in this yarn, so it gets stashed at the back of my yarn closet (did I mentioned that I graduated to a YARN CLOSET?)

The other day I was going through that closet, found these yarns and it struck me - 

LONG SKINNY INFINITY SCARF (a.k.a. - long loop)!!!.

So here are my before and after pictures:

Novelty yarns (Fun Fur and Ladder yarn - I don't even remember the manufacturers)

Two Scarves:

and in combination:

and a close up:

It turned out to be a Fun-Fun-Fun accessory to play with and find more and more ways to wear it. 

So, if you happen to have a ball of a pretty novelty yarn and like my idea - here is the pattern:

Free Pattern: Long Skinny Infinity Scarf

Take your favorite needles: size does not really matter.

Cast on 3 st.

In every row: slip1, knit 1, purl 1

Work until you run out of yarn - the last row: k3tog, pull the yarn through.

Make a knot using yarn tails from cast on and cast off to make a long loop. 

Weave in the ends.

Enjoy Playing with your new accessory!

Let me know if you have made your novelty scarf - I would love to see the pictures!

Happy Knitting everyone!