I have made several scarves in variations of this pattern in my exploration of Brioche Knitting. I wrote this pattern up to use in a class for my knitting guild’s Technique Night and decided to post it on Ravelry so others could use it, too. It makes a nice cushy scarf with vertical rib stripes in contrasting colors (if you wish…or just work it in a single color if you prefer).

For a single-color scarf, use two 100g balls of the same color…for a two-color scarf, use one 100g ball of each color. Any chunky yarn with 100-120 yards per 100g should work.

To figure the row gauge, just count how many stitches are visible in a 4-inch column of stitches. Technically, if there are 14 stitches in a column, they represent 28 rows, as each of those stitches has been slipped for one row after being knit; but ignore that for your row gauge count.

If you want to make a scarf in a different size or gauge, just be sure to cast on an odd number of stitches for the pattern to work right.