Who doesn’t love to work on a cheerful project on dull and grey winter days? This scarf with its easy to memorise pattern can be worked with as many colours as desired and makes a great stash-busting project for small amounts of yarn left over from other projects.

This tube scarf is worked in the round using stranded knitting. The colour changes for the dot motif and the background colour take place in different rounds to create the most playful look. For the same reason the colours for our sample were chosen at random and are not worked in a repeating sequence. Should you wish to recreate the scarf shown, there is a table provided with the order of the colours at the end of the pattern. The ends are embellished with a multicoloured pompom, optional.

Note that on rnds where a new background colour is introduced you will be stranding three colours on the same rnd.

Size
18.5 cm (7.25”) wide and 180 cm (71”) long, adjustable.

Material
A total of approximately 1200 m of DK weight yarn with a yardage of approximately 300 m (328 yds) per 100g in contrasting colours.
Used in the samples:
Blue/Gree/Purple (top pictures): Scheepjes Colour Crafter in Deventer, Bastogne, Charleroi, Brugge, Wilnis, Eelde and Antwerpen
Multicoloured (bottom pictures) West Yorkshire Spinner ColourLab DK in Natural Cream 010, Pear Green 186, Electric Blue 364, Cerise Pink 539, Zesty Orange 476, Aqua Green 705, Citrus Yellow 229

3.5mm DPNs or circular needle(s) for your preferred way to knit in the round

6 stitch markers
pompom maker or cardboard circles, optional
tapestry needle

Gauge
26 sts x 28 rows = 10cm measured over stranded pattern