A few weeks ago I got an email from a customer who was struggling to wrap her head around the pattern for our Hole in One Scarf.
This popular one-ball project uses self-shading Classic Shades yarn and is thoroughly visually entertaining.
Part of my job at Universal Yarn is emailing and talking with folks over the phone regarding pattern problems they’re having. This can be frustrating at times, because I can’t always “see” what they’re seeing. Often times, if I could only show the knitter or crocheter in person how to do a certain thing, it would be totally easy to explain. Or if I could take a look at their project in progress, I could spot the issue with no problem. Without this ability, often the best course of action is to take photos to try and illustrate. That is what I did in the case of this scarf.
Basically, the holes in this scarf are formed by binding off stitches on one row and then casting on stitches over the gap on the next row. I cast on for the scarf, worked a full pattern repeat, and then worked up to and through the first “action” row of stitches being bound off. Here is a photo of my scarf in progress:
The real trouble this particular knitter had was with the following row. So I worked across that row, took a picture, and then identified each stitch in the row:
And that’s all there is to it! Having trouble with one of our patterns? Let me know!