Harnessing the pooling and striping in space-dyed yarn has been a mission of mine in the last couple of years. As I’m not a sock-knitter, I’ve wanted to find other ways to show off the beauty of hand-dyed yarns. Along my explorations of unstraightening straight lines, I’ve discovered how to force yarn to stripe and pool. Developing this piece has given me an appreciation for the many exciting ways in which colors can pool.

Infinite Pools is an infinity scarf worked in long, narrow strips: You knit one strip, then knit the second strip, attaching it to the first strip as you go. Work up additional strips if you have enough yarn and want a wider piece.

Invisible Decreases are a special feature of this piece, and make it so the color pattern is uninterrupted. I’ve created a video tutorial to teach you how to do them.

The interactive PDF pattern guides you through customizing for your particular yarn, and incorporates your specific stitch information into the pattern instructions. To make it easy! Also included are two instructional videos. (You have the option to download a print-only version and the interactive PDF file.)

Choosing Yarn: The pattern is easily adaptable to different yarn weights and lengths of color repeats. It is recommended that you choose space-dyed yarn with multiple color repeats between approximately 60-80” in length. Hand-dyed yarn with high-contrasts between two colors (and not much color blending) is ideal; machine-dyed yarn works fine, but you may not be able to determine the length of the color repeats, and you may achieve striping but not pooling. Long color repeats (as with Noro) are not recommended for this particular pattern. (Feel free to ask me!)

Skills Required: stockinette, make-one-left increase, knit two together.

Skills Taught: kitchener join (written instruction); invisible decrease and deep lifted increase (video instruction)

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