So pretty!

So funny--I was just talking about this stitch at my knitting group! The scarf looks lovely (and so do you!).

OMG,OMG, OMG, was I first? Yes! Wheehaw!

Very pretty!

Another similar ribbing is Farrow Rib (http://www.knitlist.com/01gift/farrow-rib-scarf.htm) I used this pattern and a couple skeins of a more subtle shade of Kureyon to make a manly scarf for my boyfriend. It's so pretty I steal it all the time...

Are you on Ravelry yet? It's such a source of patterns and inspiration and yarn porn.. oh, you'll just love it!

PS - Love the bangs!

lovin' the bangs!

Hey! The pictures aren't fuzzy! It looks like you figured out your new camera!! And you make me want to go get my hair did.

Lovely! I'm off to the yarn store right now...

I guess I'll be redundant and go along with what the comments before me say:
1.) Love the scarf. Looks great and sounds so simple to make!

2.) REALLY love the bangs. really.

Last note - how long did it take you to do this scarf?

Love the scarf and the bangs Miss Thang!
'impenetrable wall of yarn' is my fave quote of the day.

lerve the bangs! a whole new you for the new year!

Love the new hairdo! You look sassy!

I like the new bangs. Like the new camera too. And the scarf looks totally cool. (in a warm way)

I've been making some scarves in a stitch I really like. Cast on an even number of stitches, and then k1, p1 to the end. Turn, and k1, p1. You end up with what looks like ribbing on both sides. This is a crappy picture, but you might be able to see what it looks like http://www.flickr.com/photos/15224428@N08/2123385405/

I really like the stitch you're doing...I'm about to go to the doctor's office, so I might take along some knitting needles and a pile of yarn and try it while I'm waiting to see him. It'll keep me from freaking out while waiting to see the neurologist. (he's a cool doctor, but I always tend to get all stressed out when going to see him for some reason)

Love the yarn, love the scarf, but mostly I love that you did all the math for those of us who can't count to four.

Love it! Can't wait to start!

I'm sure endless compliments get sooo old, but still...excellent scarf and hairdo!

And for someone who says she isn't good with the numbers/counting, you were whipping out those stitch number options like a math whiz!

Marin, depending on the amount of cabernet, I do forget how to count to four so I thought I'd just be ... helpy. heh.

Julianne -- making this scarf (knitting through two large skeins of yarn) took me about ... uh? Maybe six hours? Ten hours? I have no idea. I just brought it on the bus with me and knitted during my commute. I also have a few different projects going at once, so I rotate them around. I think I started this scarf right before Christmas. I did a fair amount of work on it on Christmas Eve when I spent the night at Grandma's house. I think maybe overall it was a couple of weeks of sporadic knitting.

That's a good lookin' scarf on a great lookin' gal. Lovely!!

Thanks for that contrast pix - it speaks a thousand words about impenetrable wall versus drape. I hate getting the impenetrable wall and not stopping, hoping somehow it will change after about 3 feet...noooo. I agree, your hairdo rocks; the bangs are cool jaggy-cut-swept-aside-bangs-but not-bangs.

I also just started doing the mistake rib scarves
and I really like the way it drapes. Also it doesn't bunch up around your neck and become a thick neck brace, but rather folds rather fetchingly. I have used different kinds of yarn for the scarves and so far have been pleased. One
scarf that isn't very long will go to a shelter for abused women, and I'll sew a velcro dot onto it as a closure for a kid's scarf--safer--it will let go if the scarf get's caught on something--won't create a large knot under the child's chin, and is also less knitting. I think I should have
made it narrower, though. I used 31 stitches on 5mm needles. 27 or 23 would have been better.
I did some overlapping loops on the end with I-cord which is attached where the "rib" comes, instead of a fringe. Looks pretty good.
Glad to hear y'all wear scarves in LA.
I enjoy your blog.

Those photos are a great illustration of the importance of correct gauge. Imagine if that scarf were a sweater! (o:

*sigh* Ok. Fine. Y'all win. I will learn how to knit. You have convinced me...

("Impenetrable Wall Of Yarn" is exactly and precisely what happened with most of my single-crocheted scarves until I started using an N hook. Anything smaller than that and it's like fuzzy chain mail.)

I am also one who will knit and knit on a scarf hoping it loosens up or learns to draps. Alas, that never happens, so this time I moved to the much bigger needle and the results are so good if I do say so myself! I have been wearing that scarf to work for days and days, it's my current fave.

And I like finding inexpensive yarns that look great. Sometimes I am not loving spending nine hundred dollars on a scarf (and sometimes I am, NORO. hehehehe)

Laurie,

Lovin' the new do'!!! I love the bangs!! U look FANTABOULOUS!!

I've made this scarf a bunch of times and everyone always likes it. It's good for men too.

I'm now convinced you're the official spokeschick for the Zeitgeist: I've heard about 27 references to slow cookers in the past 48 hours, separate from what's actually appeared here.

Inquiring minds want to know: How do you take pictures of knitting without having cats sit all over your project? Or do you take all your pictures in that fancy-shmancy tile-lined photo studio that White Guys in Ties provides?

What kind of camera did you get? I can see it's a way-cute Nikon, but we want details!

The scarf! The bangs! The wonderful new you!

I forgot to post this in yesterday's message, but there are some GREAT slow cooker recipes in "Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker" cookbook. Everything from rice to meat to soup to breakfast. I love my slow cooker.

You look fabulous. Did you know that your book is in this month's catalogue from KnitPicks? Ach, we knew you when...

I, too, am lovin' the bangs. I jumped over the bang-stick last year and will never go back! And a curiosity question ... sorry if you've been asked this before? Do you "throw" the yarn with your right hand or left? (I forget which is English and Continental style, or Continental and Spazzy and English syle!) I throw the yarn with my left hand and had to adjust some little thing to make my purl stitches not twist. Does any one else have that problem?

I duuno - two is a pretty high number for me to count to if I'm watching television.

You are totally rockin' those bangs

I see I'm not the first, but LOVE THE BANGS! the new haircut is PERFECT for you. YAY! for fun hair!

ZOMG. New "Do" is tres WOW. And I've been dithering about a scarf pattern for some bamboo yarn I just bought -- mistake rib, here I come. Thnx.

Beautiful!

And the scarf is nice too.

And isn't mistake rib fairly reversible? That's the best part in my opinion!

Look at you looking cute with the great bangs! (And the scarf is pretty awesome, too!)

This is my favorite stitch for making scarves when you aren't sure you have enough (or are using a luxury yarn and can't afford enough) for a full scarf. I do a provisional cast on, knit in mistake rib till I run out of yarn and then pick up a crochet hook (gasp) and single crochet a contrasting yarn around the scarf for a border. The mistake rib is textured enough to be fun and interesting, but not so textured that you lose the detail of a really nice yarn.

hey i love the bangs

I love tweedle dee yarn!! I just made myself a scarf out of it! I used the sahara color. So soft!

HELLO. I just read your book and I absolutely ADORE you. Great book and you are sweet as pie. I hope only great things come to you.

XO

I have a serious knitting question. Do Canadian knitting needles and American knitting needles come in the same or different sizes?

I know we use metric more than you do.

When I was knitting back in the dark ages, I seem to remember a big pair of needles used to be like a size zero. Please advise.

I want to make this scarf!!!

I have always wanted to try the mistake rib, now you have inspired me to do so. Your instructions are the most coherent I've seen so far!

All I have to do now is dive into the ever-expanding stash of fibrous crack (oops, yarn) and find a suitable candidate.

Nice scarf, I really like that yarn.

And look at those bangs, a little fringe looks good on you.

OMG...and I just gave up on knitting. This sounds too easy to be true. Do I dare buy stuff to try and do this? I dunno.

Can I say your bangs look awesome! I am a card carrying member of the "five head club" so I always have bangs as well. But your's look way better than mine! I'm going to ask my stylist about getting sexy side swept bangs the next time I go in.

I am totally in love with the K2P2 rib and can't stop making stuff using it.

But isn't that K1P1 I'm seeing on your scarf?

I just donated blood so I might be hallucinating.

i thought i would be so unique and comment on the bangs (love 'em)....but im part of a fan club. ps- nice scarf. graeat color.

Love those bangs! (and the scarf too)

Impenetrable wall of yarn is right up there with "actressing" as my favorite new words/phrases of the week.

the scarf is cute, but girl, those bangs are rockin!

LOL @ Kalleris "fuzzy chain mail" *snort* *cough* *wheeze* I'm home sick in bed today and this made me laugh so hard I might have to change the sheets.

I need to knit a new scarf or two. Perhaps this is just the pattern!

Thanks for your instructions...funnily I was thinking to myself as I typed in your URL "I hope she has some knitting tips sometime soon". Anyway, since I have trouble imagining what you (or anyone) is explaining when it comes to knitting, I wrote out K K P P and so on and now I get it and I will make an attempt this weekend.

(Psychomom, writing it out helped me understand why it looks like K1P1)

Delurking to tell you that "Chew Look Mahhhvelus" in that picture. I love the bangs and *you* look so happy!

I started a hat in that stitch last night! Well, I was originally going to do it in moss stitch, but I'm a newbie & couldn't translate the pattern for circular needles. OOPS!

Thanks Martine,

After further investigation I'm understanding it isn't an actual K2P2 but a Mistake K2P2. DOH!

And it looks so lovely with the new bangs! ;-)

You should check out Ravelry sometime and see how many people have done a Mistake Rib scarf and how great it looks with different yarns. Noro, in particular, looks great in that pattern. :-)

Great scarf thank you for sharing the pattern guide. Have to agree with all the bangs look sassy on you.

I could make that!
I'm knitting my very first hat, and I'm afraid there has been much wailing and gnashing of the teeth. Not to mention lots of swearing and blaspheming!

And you are really rockin' those bangs!

Oh -- the camera is just a Kodak point-and-shoot (but it's fancier than my last one what with its whopping 3 megapixels.) This one has like 12 of those megapixely things.

Although I really was sad my old Kodak broke, I loved that little camera so much.

I use Kodak cameras because I think they have the best way of making skin tones look so good.

Must say I LOVE the wispy bangs, too. Not dated! Very now! You look a bit more mysterious and sly with them, too, in a sexy way. Look out, single men of SoCal!

You say these knitting directions are easy??? let me tell you, so you don't feel bad, I can't knit three rows without making a mistake and pulling it out. I totally don't follow what you're saying as far as extra stitches etc. I'm Pathetic!!! I'm trying to knit a hat right now and I feel like I'm going crazy. So not easy for me.

I have to tell you, I made my first wearable knitted garment out of Tweedledee in mistake rib, only in my case it actually was ---um---a mistake. I was trying to make a 3x rib and miscounted but it looked sort of cool so I kept going. I had no idea it actually had a name! Thanks for blogging, it helps keep us all sane.

Laurie,

I'm doing the mistake rib scarf now with Noro Silk Garden. It does make a pretty scarf. However, I prefer mine more on the skinny side. I can't stand a lot of stuff around my neck! And by the way - your bangs are wonderful!

Linda in VA

12 megapixels? Now that whops.

I want a new camera not so much for Mpx (since I practically never print anything) but for zoom. If you zoom in as best you can on an owl sitting in your tree, and you get something that looks like... well, it could be anything, really, you start craving zoom big time.

ROCK those bangs!
You look fabulous!

You've gotta tell us where the secret spot is! Glad your guy finally decided to give in to the bangs - I really like them!

I love the sassy new bangs! The scarf rocks too, but with the bangs you are sooo Miss Thang!!!!

Bangs AND hi-lights!?! niiiice!

omg!!! I used that very same yarn to crochet a scarf for my 7yo's teacher. I crocheted, instead of knitting, because I remembered at 6:30pm the night before their last day of school b4 xmas that I was supposed to make her a scarf. d'oh! But that yarn on a size N hook, the pattern for the scallop scarf in the Happy Hooker book....a thing of beauty. Finished it by 11pm.

LOVE the bangs. so wispy. and the scarf's pretty danged cool, too!

Love the bangs, the camera and the scarf. AND I love your fried okra recipe--just made it for my dinner (wine and crunchy okra, nothing better).

I didn't have milk, so used plain yogurt for that first coating before the cornmeal/flour. Wow, has to count as healthy eating, right?! (And I fried in olive oil, so that counts, too).

Fried okra is all about health, huh?

I love mistake rib! Best scarf pattern ever, and it makes a nifty hat too, though I have a little trouble making the crown decreases look right. But who looks at the top of my head? Even if I am shortish. :)

The scarf looks great!

I'm making a mistake rib hat right now and love it! It's from the Stitch N' Bitch calendar Jan.11 called Urban Urchin- so easy. By the way- love the bangs. There's nothing like a new 'do!

Love the scarf and the bangs.

Juliana, you remember right about big number=small needles for us Canucks. We used the British system where 0= huge honkin things and 15 would be teeny tiny. The US is just the opposite. Now though, most needles you'll find in Canada are going to be in either US or Metric (or both) as the original British system has been replaced by metric.

Liza {who might still have some needles in the old system 'round here somewhere}

The Yarn Harlot has a nice one-row scarf on her website: http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2006/10/12/one_row_handspun_scarf.html

Bangs, Scarves, AND Crockpots?!?! This is quite the week. I am really loving all of it.

Look at you with your sassy new bangs and do I see highlights? You look great. Really you look wonderful.

Zeitgeist indeed- I saw the scarf in alternating colors of Noro on the blog Brooklyn Tweed and remembered the Mistake Rib scarf in Last Minute Knitted Gifts and 2 different colors Plymouth Boku later had a scarf for my brother for Christmas, What those particular scarves did was to alternate colorways of self-striping yarn every 2 rows so that you have color-changing stripes the whole way up the scarf (2 rows skein 1, bring up skein 2 yarn in front of working end of skein 1, drop skein 1, start working skein 2 for 2 rows, restart skein 1, etc. B'klyn Tweed did a 1x1 rib, LMK used mistake rib, my first scarf was 2x2 rib, new one = mistake rib). Very cool how the colors change out.

Your bangs look fabulous; have you introduced your camera to the ladies' room mirror yet?

I was just thinking about making this kind of scarf but didn't know how to do the pattern. Thanks, Laurie! Are you psychic or what?

Oh, Miss Laurie, you are SO rocking the bangs! And the scarf is beautiful.

I want you to know, those dang adorable little bag patterns in the back of your book may just push me back into knitting. I've started eyeing yarn in stores with a lust that most people reserve for, I dunno, Johnny Depp or whoever young ladies these days think is hott.

LOVE the mistake rib! Just made my cute hubby's Christmas gift scarf in that stitch. First project I didn't have to start over 23 times because I screwed it up! So of course that stitch is my friend forever....and it makes me look like I can knit something way more complex than what I'm really capable of! :)

Love the bangs, BTW!

I know this whole post was about the scarf, but my biggest reaction was "Wow! Great bangs!"

On the second read-through the scarf was pretty too - simple can look so good.

Love the scarf! Love the bangs!

I have to tell you (and everyone else who lives in our general vicinity), that "my" LYS, Village Knittery, in Westlake, will be closing forever(sad, sad, sad)in the next couple of weeks. While that is devastating news (they had the best teachers in there), ALL their yarn is on sale - everything is 35% off with tables of things 40-50% off. Noro, alpaca, mohairs, everything. I keep going in to add to my stash in small increments so the total bill won't be noticed too much. I cry while I buy.

What scarf? The bangs, they rock!

Knitting needle size conversion charts here, including US, UK, metric, and Japanese. I would have figured Japanese needles would be in metric, but they are not.
Anyway, here's the conversion chart:
http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/tips/convert.htm
Lots of other cool stuff on that site as well.

I am SO writing this cool pattern down; I'm accumulating a bunch o' neat things to make (watch my lips) *as soon as I finish all my toques". (sigh) And yeah, exactly what they all said about the bangs (adorable!) I'm rounding up 3-4 scarves I've made over the last few months - to wear all at once. Along with three caps, fingerless mitts under gloves inside mittens - also long underwear over leg warmers. New fashion trend? Nope, just Wisconsin Winter. The HIGH temperature forecast for Saturday (I repeat, the HIGH) is 1. ONE. But because it's "above zero", fwe Wisconsinites won't wear ALL our knitty goodies. Those ocme out in the evening, when it's -15 and (according to the @#$)@#(@) a**holes who invented "wind chill") about -35. THEN even we Wisconsinites bundle up. Stay in? Why? You just dress for it!

errr......guess my fingers are colder than I thought - sorry 'bout all those typos. {blush}

The scarf looks wonderful, and the bangs suit you so well! You look stunning. :)

loving the bangs!

I love the color of the scarf..

actually.. it's very close to some 'magic yarn' that I sent you (a few months ago) that is that color and blue-ish at the same time.. mohair and wool yarn. I sent 2 or 3 skeins (100 grams each), some bamboo knitting needles (from here in Korea), and a few other odds and ends.. in honor of your new Korean neighbors.. and your love of knitting.

I sent the yarn to you- because, it is such a beautiful yarn knitted up and I wanted to share the 'magic yarn'.. I get compliments every time I wear my scarf- because the color is so different and the yarn is so soft too.

Alas, I forgot to put insurance on the package- so, I am assuming that the package got stolen? I have asked a couple of times (in the past) if you had ever received the package and didn't get a reply.. *As to if it did or didn't arrive. :(

So, I'm assuming that it didn't make it to your postal box. I'm sorry that it didn't.. because you would have loved the yarn.. because it's yummy and is very close to the color of the scarf that you just knitted. (I thought it would also go w/ your hair and skin tone.)

I call it 'magic yarn' because the yarn is like two colors at one time-- depends on how the light hits it and knits up so expensive looking and shows stitch patterns well.

Your top secret photo taking spot is the powder-room at work, isn't it? :o)

Love the bangs!

And love the scarf. It hadn't occured to me that it would be that easy to make a stitch that looked like that.

- Pam

my cat athena approves of the bangs. I love them. You rock!

Super cute and lovin' the new bangs!

Super cute and lovin' the new bangs!

You have the best knitting tutorials. I'm still holding out for a NE book tour - it was a blast meeting you at BEA. I also wanted to let you know I'm engaged. I held out for the right man (mature, fun, likes jazz ...and who could put up with me) and at 37 he finally got here!

I agree with Dale-Harriet. It's a matter of dressing for the weather. I was born and raised in Wisc, and now living in the Chicago burbs (yes, I've become one of them, and if you're from Wisc, you'll know what I mean) and sometimes an impenetrable wall of yarn is a good thing. Of course, here we'll be a comparably balmy 2-3 degrees this weekend.

Also, I've been dating someone for a while now, and since his birthday is next month, I decided he just might be scarf-worthy. The dilemma was that I am a slow, stitch-dropping knitter. What a timely post! You came up with an easy stitch that every one agrees makes a great looking scarf. Thanks, everybody!

fabulous haircut.

you look fabulous with the wispy bangs! and the scarf is nifty...um....looks like you are dressed for freezing weather! what is it like there...70degrees or something? ha! what you are wearing is pretty much the fall/winter everyday gettup here in the northeast. we've had snow fall almost every day lately, but it warms up and melts during the sunny part of the day. we are due for weather in the 20's though...send that scarf on out here girl! ;op

Thanks Liz! :)

Awesome scarf design and yarn! I am indeed in love with this Tweedle Dee yarn too, as I purchased the Blackberry color and made some simple, no frills "foot sweaters." The color repeated in just the right place (by accident?) and I used a size 10-1/2 to achieve a tighter knit.

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I just read the last several posts in backwards order and didn't notice the new bangs in this post or the mention of bangs in the wind in the previous post. It took at the hairdresser to clue me in. I'm not so observant these days, am I? I really like the bangs. I'm not sure why he wouldn't let you do it sooner.

I've seen variations of mistake rib, all of which accomplish the same thing.

I like using a multiple of four plus one. That way, the stitch at the beginning and end is a knit. So, when you turn and do the next row, you're doing a knit at the beginning and end again, so the edge stitches will be garter.

With your version of multiple of four plus three, your last stitch is a purl, which means that your edge stitch is in stockinette. Even though the scarf doesn't curl b/c mistake rib lies flat, the edge can look wonky b/c of the stockinette. At least MY edge stitches in stockinette look wonky. So, I prefer the multiple of 4 + 1.

Great scarf! And this week it can be even more affordable...I noticed that my local (Canadian) Michael's has it on sale for $5. I'm going shopping now...

You look absolutely smug in your secret photo spot with your scarf. Sweet!

Several of us in the knitting group at Close Knit (Evanton IL) made these scarves, with these helpful hints: slip the first stitch purl-wise every row to make a lovely, non-curling edge, and when you bind off at the end, K2 tog every 3rd or 4th stitch. This pulls the bottom edge together so you won't get that "flare" at the bottom. It's a great scarf!!

oh, yeah. I did two of those Mistake Rib scarves this winter - they are fun and so easy! I love the yarn you used for your scarf. Pretty!!!

Love, love, love the Mistake Rib! Finally cast on for my everlovin' husband's scarf - handspun worsted weight merino in a gorgeous but manly blend of charcoal, deep smoky blues and deep brick reds. He likes to scrunch up his scarf, cross it over, and tuck it inside his coat, so his will be a bit wider and shorter than I'd make one for me. I cast on 59 stitches on size 10 (6mm?) needles and so far, so good.

Love the scarf and the color :-)

Fantastic scarf, I might even attempt it! I love the pattern and the drape, and it even seems like I could do it without throwing it across the room.

PS. Your hair looks WONDERFUL! Love.

You look stunnin gin that scarf with th enew bangs- I hope Mr. X is hating his creativity right about now! I am taking your advice abnout the diet no diet area of my lifeI'm adding rodney ye to my mornings too! love the look!

Very chic! I love your new haircut.

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Love the scarf and your "new" hair!

Eve

Wow! I had no idea what a big difference the needles make! I'm a super newbie knitter. I only made one little bitty scarf. I'm going to buy some big needles and some more yarn!

Oh and the scarf is gorgeous by the way! ; )

I love the new hairdo!

I did a lot of mistake rib scarves a year or so ago, which were great fun when I remembered that the scarves didn't need to be long enough for Doctor Who. I did a grey striped mistake rib scarf that nearly caused me to die of boredom it was so long.

Bought the book, 'cause I read your blog, now I have to try this stitch, 'cause I read your blog...you're gonna have to cut that out! ;-)

And *love* the new hairdo, but the sassy grin outshines it!

Just thought I'd let you know I just finished a mistake rib scarf on size 35 needles and super bulky yarn - Blue Sky, very soft and fuzzy. I only used 7 stitches and it still looked good. I'd paste a photo but I don't know how. Look on ravelry under tejasmom

You are so inspiring Laurie! I just started my first mistake rib scarf and it is a much better stitch for a scarf than the regular rib. I never 'got' it before.

I have completed one Mistake Rib and LOVE IT. I am now working on two others...one with very thin Alpaca, but I am using size 11, so it is airy and lacey looking and so very pretty. Thank You, and love your bangs