Warm Button Fastened Scarf with Herringbone Stitch

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• Step 1

  The Herringbone part of the scarf

  To get started, you need to get familiar with the Herringbone stitch. I used this video for that: http://newstitchaday.com/horizontal-herringbone-stitch/

  This video is made by a guy (how cool is that?! <3) and it helped me out a lot!
  Just practice it a couple of times.

  While I was working on my scarf, I saw the Flamboyant Red Herringbone Scarf made by Sanne E.. Pretty funny that I was working on the same stitch ;)
  Here is the link to her scarf: http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/flamboyant-red-herringbone-scarf

• Step 2

  First I cast on 250 stitches with my circular needles. That appeared not to be enough, so I had to redo it... ~:( After that I cast on 300 stitches. This was enough.

  Now you can make your Herringbone Stitches till the scarf is about 15cm wide (or more, depending on your preferences).

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  Step 3

  The black borders
  The one end where the buttons are on is as wide as the scarf itself.
  I thought this would look much prettier underneath the other edge.
  I did the borders only using Single Crochets.

  After that I added the brown buttons.

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  Step 4

  The end where the buttons go through, is in total 11 rows wide.
  I first crocheted 5 rows with Single Crochets.
  For the 6th row I stitched a few stitches with Single Crochets, made a chain the width of the button, made more Single Crochets and did this to fit all 3 buttons.
  I finished with 4 more rows of single stitches.

• Step 5

  To stop the curling

  Because I used Circular Knitting Needles and the width was quite long, the whole Herringbone part started to curl!
  To stop this, I made slip stitches along the whole scarf using a crochet hook.
  This stopped it a bit.

  After that I blocked the whole scarf.
  I did this by
  1. pinning the scarf down the way I wanted.
  2. Spraying the scarf wet.
  3. Ironing it with a towel above the knitting.
  4. Laying it to rest with heavy stuff on the ends.

  This made the scarf exactly how I wanted it to be, without curling.

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  Step 6

  Now your scarf is finished! I hope you like it! I know I do. You can give it to a fashionable friend to keep him warm in winter :)

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