Cameo Faggot Stitch Scarf

May 13, 2008

Last week I decided to toss a crochet scarf project I’m working on and use the yarn to make a scarf using the Cameo Faggot Stitch (as in cigar). It would seem that in order to keep the side even when crocheting, you need to count stitches. Well, I didn’t count 1 stitch and now the scarf looks drunk. The sides are weaving in and out and I just can’t bring myself to take it out again. So, I’ll finish it for myself and start over with a knit project.

After searching the patterns on Ravelry, books and websites, I chose the The Cameo Faggot Stitch Scarf. The finished project looked good and the pattern seemed interesting…as in easy.

And a way we go. I found videos at Knit-Help.com that demonstrated how to do 2 of the things the pattern called for. YO (yarn over) and k2tog (knit 2 together). I have my yarn, needles, know how. I’m ready to make it happen.

I have taken this thing out 50 million times. The stitches seemed to be a bit to twisted, so I had to be doing something wrong. Right? As it turns out, I was doing it all correctly, I just needed to do enough rows to see the progress. After that little gem of info was discovered, I was off and getting the hang of the stitch. Until I looked a few rows back and saw that I missed a YO. So, being the rational person that I am, I assumed I could carefully go back a few rows and make the correction. Everything went well until I couldn’t get the stitches back on the needle correctly. So, I had to start over…again.

The gift scarf saga continues. I’ll post photos after I finally get it going.

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