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April 2023 Pattern of the Month Machine Knit
Heart
and Arrow Scarf
©2015 by N Banks
Learn to use the Russel Levers on the Sk 700. by knitting this easy to knit Heart and Arrow scarf. The scarf is 4 inches wide and 34 inches long from the tip of the heart to the tip of the arrow. This pattern is written for beginners.
Materials needed
Silver Reed Card #4
3/11 Bright Pink yarn
3/11 Red, small amount.
1. With waste yarn, cast on 6
stitches,
3 – 0- 3. Knit 11 rows.
2. COL. Using ravel cord, knit 1 row to the right.
3. Pull all 6 needles to “d” position and with main yarn, e-wrap these 6 stitches. Knit 1 row to the left.
4.
5. Set machine as in order number 2 as per your manual, see above.
6. Ten 8, Upper Ten 5. RC 0 knit 2 rows.
7. Pull 1 needle on carriage side to d, and e-wrap it. Knit 1 row. Repeat this row until you have 41 stitches in work. Remember to add weights as you need them. NOTE: when you e-wrap the stitch, move yarn under the brushes.
8. Write pattern row here: ________(Mine 39). Write RC here: ____________ (Mine 39)
9. Put all stitches left of 0 and
2 stitches right of 0 out of work, or D position. You will have
19 working needles.
10. Put Russel levers to I,
Picture below shows the russel
levers in the II position. Move them to I position.
11. Ten 8 RC 39, knit 2 rows.
12. Move both first and last
stitch to the next working needle. Leave needles out of work.
You now have 17 working Stitches.
NOTE: watch the needles in “D” position to make sure they stay in non working position.
13. Repeat 12 until you have 4 stitches left.
14. RC 57, bind off remaining 4 stitches.
15. COR. Reset RC and pattern row to what you wrote down in 8.
16. Reset Russel levers to II.
17. Put stitches in hold or D back to B. With main yarn, starting on right side, bind of 4 stitches (the 2 right and left of 0). You will have 18 stitches in work. Needles 20 to 3 left of 0.
18. Ten 8, knit 2 rows.
19. Repeat 12 until you have 4 stitches left. Then bind off these 4 stitches.
20. Worm edging: With wrong side facing you, re-hang 2 stitches on needles, * knit 6 rows, hang next 2 stitches on these two needles, repeat from * all the way around heart.
21. With tuck side facing you, center heart on 26 needles. (13 – 0 – 13). Hang weights on the worm edging so that the brushes will not hang up on them. Ten 10. With main and carriage on the right, knit slowly across to the left.
22. Ten 8, RC 0. Insert Card #4 into machine, set machine to order 1 per your manual, see #4 above, slowly knit one row to the right.
23. Ten. 8, RC 1. Set machine in
order 2 as
per your manual, see #4 above. Knit 27 rows.
24. Note RC here _________
mine was 27,
Note Patt. row here ______ mine was 27.
25. Put all needles left of 0 on hold, (you now have 13 working needles to the right of 0.) Put Russel levers to I, see #10 above.
26. COR. Ten 8, RC 27, Pattern row 27, knit 61 rows. Remember to move the weights up as you knit. Watch the non working needles so that they stay out of work.
27. COR. Brake yarn, reset set RC to 27, and Pattern row card to 27. Put all needles left of 0 to working position. Put all needles right of 0 to hold.
28. RC 27, Ten 8, Pattern row 27, knit 61 rows.
29. Brake yarn, set Russel levers to II, (see # 10 above.). Bring all needles to working position,
30. Ten 8 RC 0 knit to 130 rows.
31. Ten 7.2 RC 130, knit 325 rows.
32. Ten 7. RC 0. Remove card from machine, and set machine to plain knit. Change to Red yarn.
33. RC 0, Ten 7. Knit 2 rows.
Move both end stitches to next working needle.
34. Repeat #33 until you have 2 stitches left. Bind off.
35. With heart on the right and with wrong side facing you, re-hang scarf on 2 needles just to the left of the heart behind the worm edging. * knit 6 rows, hang next 2 stitches on these two needles, repeat from * all the way scarf including the arrow, work all the way to the edge of heart. Weave in all yarn ends. Block and stream lightly.
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