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Qiviut Madeira Cascade Seamen’s Scarf
Finished Size: about 60 inches long and 8 inches wide
Yarn: 2 balls of Windy Valley Musk Ox 100% qiviut - 218 yards per ounce, 2/14
Needles: US4 (3.5mm) for the tails & US1 (2.25mm) for the ribbing
Gauge: not an issue
Note: The pattern is all in chart form. Odd number rows are wrong side rows.
The scarf is knit in two pieces, from the ends, and then grafted together. One end from each ball.

Cable cast-on 49 stitches and follow chart. Work rows 1 through 25, inclusive, once.
Work rows “a” through “t” inclusive; repeat these 20 rows 9 times; 18 chevrons.

Next row: right side, change to smaller needles and work ribbing thus:
Right side: knit 3, (purl 2, knit 2) 5 times, purl 3, (knit 2, purl 2) 5 times, end knit 3.
Wrong side: purl 3, (knit 2, purl 2) 5 times, knit 3, (purl 2, knit 2) 5 times, end purl 3.
Work these two rows for about 6 inches, about 80 rows. Set aside while you work on the second tail.

Make the second tail just like the first. Graft the two ends together. Block and weave in all ends.

Note on Grafting:
To graft the two ends together I used the Russian Grafting method taught by Galina Khmeleva. Explaining how to do this is kind of hard, it’s one of those things you just do and then it makes sense. The idea is to leap frog one stitch on top of another until the two pieces are joined - like a zipper.
End one tail on a right side row; the other on a wrong side row. This is not essential but makes life easier.

Put your needles side by side with right sides facing you, both tail ends should be on the outside edge of the knitting.
1. Slip the first stitch from the right hand needle to the left hand needle.
2. Insert the tip of your right hand needle purlwise into the first stitch (the one you just slipped) and knitwise into the second moving the stitch from the left needle to the right hand needle and letting the slipped stitch drop.
3. Insert the tip of your left hand needle purlwise into the first stitch and knitwise into the second moving the stitch from the right hand needle to the left hand needle and letting the slipped stitch drop.
4. Repeat these last two steps until you have one stitch left.
5. Tie it off with the yarn ends, weave in all ends. Block.

More detailed instructions can be found in Galina’s Orenburg Shawl books (available from Interweave Press) and in Interweave Knits Summer 2000, page 35 and Spring 2002, page 78.

Flory Loughead©2006