I hoped to make this 6’ but it was only 62” when I ran out of yarn. I ran it through a rinse/spin cycle and was able to block it out to 66”. My color change edge was tighter than the other edge but there was no curve or anything. I probably wouldn’t have noticed if I hadn’t blocked it. I didn’t let it dry completely when blocking (it was on a towel on my bed and I needed to sleep) so now my ends flare out a bit. I messed up the cast-off, but not too badly. It just doesn’t look as neat as the cast-on. I’m thinking of putting a needle in between the two needles when doing the kitchener stitch bind off, so that I don’t over tighten the stitches and they look more even. I liked the colors of the second half much better than the first; the ugly sections are the only thing making it so that I don’t love this scarf. I was pretty happy when my dad (who went first) picked it, because he wanted a scarf, and he wears many of the colors in it. It was cleverly hidden in a box of tea bags and smells wonderful now.

Notes for the next time I do this project:
I used a slightly modified Judy’s Magic Cast-On (tutorial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhBIS0AhhQY) to cast on 39 stitches (Began with and extra stitch on the front needle, held a 40th stitch on the back needle with the tail to help get started without unraveling but didn’t knit it)
Knitted one round beginning with the needle with the extra stitch.
Then used the method here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITM9Zodn-Uk to begin the first row of the knit purl pattern. Began by knitting the first stitch on the needle with the extra stitch.
On the next row, slipped the first and last stitches knit-wise with the yarn in the back (and did so for the rest of the project).
You should now have two knit purl rows and can change colors if you wish.
Notes: Make sure your tail is hanging out and not between when you begin doing your knit purl set up (or else the edge loses stretchiness). Also make sure that you are looking at purl stitches when you begin the knit purl set up.
Hold your new color strand to the right of the old strand (closest to the edge) when changing colors. Don’t worry if it looks messed up at first… When you bring up the next strand it fixes it.