I Can't Believe It's Not Crocheted by Kate Tanski

I Can't Believe It's Not Crocheted

Knitting
November 2015
Aran (8 wpi) ?
15 stitches and 22 rows = 4 inches
US 10 - 6.0 mm
130 - 150 yards (119 - 137 m)
English
This pattern is available for free.

Knit Your Comics for November 2015.

This is a transformative work of knitted fanart.

I love Harry Potter. I actually learned to knit specifically to knit Harry Potter scarves. Which is why as soon as I saw these yarn colors next to each other, I couldn’t help but think about them in Ravenclaw blue and bronze terms. Hence…a Ravenclaw scarf–but a little more grown up, because I’m a little more grown up now. In theory.

Even though I’m not a Ravenclaw, a friend of mine is, and the second impetus for this project was the fact that it’s the time of the year when I’m looking for quick projects I can knit for presents that won’t break my wallet.

The third impetus for this project was that I love the look of crocheted colorwork, but I absolutely cannot crochet, so when I was browsing interesting stitches for my Ravenclaw scarf, and I found this stitch pattern, I was immediately struck by how it looked like crochet but was actually knit. Which is why this pattern is called:

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Crocheted Two-Color Star Stitch Cowl