Þula — Einband Scarf Knitting Kit

Þula — the old Icelandic chanted rhyme that strings word after word together. Védís Jónsdóttir’s scarf from Ístex’s Lopi 34 strings colour after colour: eight shades of fine Einband — crimson, midnight blue, lime, purple, pink, citron, turquoise and vivid blue — in a long run of stripes and small patterns, knitted as a tube with a short fringe at each end.

Included

• Icelandic Einband wool yarn — one 50 g ball of each of the eight colours, all the pattern calls for
• Knitting pattern in English (PDF) — emailed right after purchase
• ADDI knitting needles — only if you choose the kit with needles

Einband — 50 g balls · one size
A 0047 Crimson — 1
B 0709 Midnight Blue — 1
C 9268 Lime — 1
D 9044 Purple — 1
E 1768 Pink — 1
F 9028 Citron — 1
G 1762 Turquoise — 1
H 1098 Vivid Blue — 1

Size
17 cm wide and 151 cm long (6¾″ × 59½″), plus a short fringe at each end.

Gauge
20 sts × 28 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 4 mm needles.

Needles used in the pattern (included when you choose the kit with needles)
4 mm (US 6) circular needle, 40 cm (the pattern says double-pointed needles or a 40 cm circular)

Not included
A 4–5 mm crochet hook for the fringe, and a little scrap yarn for the cast-on.

How it is knitted
Knitted in the round as a tube, so the scarf is double and has no wrong side: 70 stitches are cast on with scrap yarn, two rounds are knitted in crimson, and the striped chart of 210 rounds is worked twice — 420 rounds in all — before two rounds in midnight blue. Both ends are laid flat and grafted closed, one in midnight blue and, once the scrap yarn is unravelled, the other in crimson. Fringes of four 12 cm strands are knotted into every other stitch — crimson at the midnight-blue end and midnight blue at the crimson end — and trimmed to 4 cm.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 34 (no. 7), Ístex.

Genuine Ístex lopi — the same wool Icelanders knit with, spun in Iceland from the fleece of Icelandic sheep. No substitutes.

Care of the finished garment — air out between wears; hand wash cool and dry flat. Full care guide

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