Knit on my Erlbacher Gearhart sock knitting machine, 72-needle cylinder (wish I had a smaller one so it would be longer).

Extremely simple to make:

1. Cast on, knit a few rows with waste yarn, switch to project yarn at either side hash mark (doesn’t matter whether it’s the left or right side), leaving a tail of project yarn to sew the end closed later.
2. Crank until you’re almost out of yarn (saving enough for sewing this end shut), stopping again at either side hash mark.
3. Crank a few rows of waste yarn, then crank it off the machine.
4. Pick up half the stitches from the first row of project yarn onto one DPN (slipping tip under the right leg of each stitch), then the rest onto another. Pick out or unravel the waste yarn.
5. Using the yarn tail and a third DPN, work a three-needle bind-off across all the stitches, then weave in the end.
6. Repeat previous two steps on the other end.
7. Add fringe as desired.

With a single 100-gram ball of sock yarn (or a single 50-gram ball of lace yarn), this makes a too-short scarf. Adding a (partial or whole) second skein is usually necessary. In this case, it was for a child, so I just added long fringe at each end to make it a suitable length.

This was made for an extremely picky seven-year-old. She picked out the SpaceCadet yarn (because SPARKLES!), and I found the purple yarn for the fringe in my stash. She told me she likes mermaids, and the green+purple is very The Little Mermaid, so I’m crossing my fingers that she doesn’t hate it (she hates everything).