School Days

Please note that this listing is for a PDF knitting pattern and not the actual garment. From Oxford and Cambridge to Hogwarts, the school scarf has always taken on a fairly standard description: long, rectangular and striped. When my oldest daughter started junior high at a school with a uniform and school colors, a school scarf was just too obvious a knit to pass up. Eschewing the standard rectangle of thick stripes, I decided for something just way cooler.  School Days is super fun and easy to knit with lots of easy garter stitch and short row shaping, and it produces a scarf which keeps the wearer warm without extra bulk. And it knits up in one weekend making it a perfect gift knit! For this quick TV or travel knit, you could also use team colors, scraps, or whatever two colors you like together! This is a crescent-ish shaped shawl that is primarily shaped with short rows and made up of both skinny and fat stripes.  No purling needed! Width: 60” / 152.5 cm Greatest Depth: 11.5” / 29 cm Materials Barrett Wool Co. Home Fingering Weight (100% American Wool; 370 yd (338 m)/100 g skein) Color A: Huron 1 skein or 350 yds of a fingering weight wool or wool blend Clark and Elle Three-Ply (100% superwash merino; 490 yd (448 m)/100 g skein) Color B: Maris Stella 1 skein or 350 yds of a fingering weight wool or wool blend 24 or 32-inch US #7/4.5 mm circular needle or size required to get gauge Tapestry needle Gauge Gauge is not super important in this design – use the needle that give you the fabric you want. 17 sts/44 rows = 4” in garter stitch on larger needles Don’t worry – short rows in garter stitch are as easy as they come.  The wraps don’t show so there is no need to pick them up!