Honey Comb Kal

ADVENT KNIT ALONG 2022

Throughout Advent we are knitting along with Wim & Dennis of Happily Knitting to make the «Honey, comb your Heritage» scarf, are you going to join the party?

It all starts on 28th November 2022! From then on you will find a new part of the pattern released here on this page every Monday and Thursday at 9 am.

The scarf is made up of nine different pieces/patterns, but you could also just knit seven to make a shorter scarf, or four to make a cowl, whatever suits your pace, knitting ability and the time you have available.

With knitting needle no. 3.5 mm / 4 mm and the two-colour cast-on cast on 102 stitches (51 per colour) for the pattern + 4 stitches for a simple edge or + 1 stitch for the pretty edge.

Now begin knitting with the double face technique, following the chart for Part 1.

All techniques used are explained here.

If you want to knit the loop, follow the instructions up to part 4 or 5 and then bind off the stitches. Weave in the ends and sew the cast-on edge to the the bind-off edge.

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When casting off knit together the k and p sts and cast off k-wise, or place the k and p sts on separate needles and graft together using Kitchener stitch.

And why not add some fringe or tassels, if you have some yarn left over.

MATERIALS REQUIRED

The "Honey Comb" scarf is knitted using the "double knitting" or “double face” technique for a reversible fabric (see below), so you will need at least 2 different colours, although you can always have more 😉.

We recommend that you first knit a swatch with all stitches on the right side in one colour and the stitches on the wrong side in the other colour. Once you understand the technique, knitting a motif will become much easier.

Yarn:

Devided up into at least 2 colours, you will need a total of:

10 balls of MERINO 120 or MERINO 120 DÉGRADÉ

or

8 - 10 balls of ATLANTIS

Needles:

4 mm for MERINO120

3.5 mm for ATLANTIS

Swatch

Instructions for Swatch

Video tutorial for the swatch with simple edge

Video instruction for the swatch with pretty edge

16 stitches x 22 rows with MERINO 120
20 stitches x 25 rows with ATLANTIS

Double face knitting

In this technique you make a knitted piece that has a pattern in knit stitches on both the front and the back. The back is the negative image of the front.

Two knitting charts are used for doubleface knitting. The knitting chart representing the front of the knitted piece is used for the odd rows, the other for the even rows. This way you can always see at a glance which colour is used for the knit stitches and which colour is used for the purl stitches.

Cast on sts using the two-colour cast on (see here). There must be twice as many sts as needed for the desired width, as the front and back are knitted at the same time.

Now divide the sts. The sts that shoulde be visible on the RS are worked in k, those sts that should be visible on the WS are purled. The colour that is not being knitted runs through the middle of the knitted fabric.

If you are working a knit st, lay the yarn not being knitted behind the st.

If you are working in purl, lay the yarn not being knitted in front of the st.

The yarn that is not being knitted, can be held with the thumb.

The edge sts are always worked with both colours together

Two-colour cast on

With 2 different colours together make a slip knot. Lay one yarn over the thumb and the other over the tip of the index finger. Hold the yarns taut with the other fingers.

Cast on the first st as for the slingshot cast on: insert N from below up into the thumb loop, draw yarn from the index finger and pull it through. Take your thumb out of the loop and wrap the yarn around the thumb again.

The next st is cast on with 2nd colour in the exact opposite way: insert N from back to front into the thumb loop, catch the upper thumb yarn and pull through. Take your thumb out of the loop and wrap the yarn around the thumb again.

Cast on sts alternately in this way, until the desired no. of sts is reached. Undo the slip knot at the end.

Honey Comb Kal

ADVENT KNIT ALONG 2022

Cast on

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Bind Off