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• Crochet a lacy two-row repeat.
• Transform a rectangle into a hood.
• Crochet two pockets.
• Make tassels to trim the scarf.
• Caron One Pound medium (worsted) weight acrylic yarn (16 oz/812 yds/ 454g per skein): 1 skein #10514 off-white
• Size J/10/6mm crochet hook or size needed to obtain gauge
• Tapestry needle

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28 comments:

Beautiful! Thx

by far my favorite scarf two on the go now one in my van another by my computer table >>thks for making printer friendly

Thank you for taking the time to do this. Your ideas are wonderful.

Thanks for writing the pattern out, you really does beautiful work!

Damn cool man, from which country you're?

Johannesburg, South Africa Rahul!

Thank you very much for this pattern, you are one very clever big giving woman x

Does anyone know how many yards of y?arn is needed for this scarf

330 yards (300 metres) or 100g of DK

How many skeins do I need for this scarf?....thanks!

If you are using DK (8 ply / light worsted weight) then 100g should be enough (300m or 330 yards)

Thank you for this pattern I'm getting ready to try it

What is a 'magic circle'? I'm new to crochet, but have already completed two of these pretty scarves. Working on the flower trim now. Thanks so much!

Thank you for the pattern Zelna, I look forward to trying it out when the weather turns cold again.

I just complete the road trip scarf and it is absolutely beautiful. All I have left to do is sew the flowers on. I used red heart unforgettable in cappuccino. It is so soft and the colors are stunning. Such an easy pattern. Can't wait to go buy more yarn to make another one.

Hi Sara! I'm just now getting ready to make my first Road Trip Scarf, and am contemplating which of 2 yarns my daughter (the intended recipient of the scarf) would want worse... A solid black, or Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable in Winery. She starts High School tomorrow and I want to finally get the scarf she requested months ago actually made. I saw that you used the Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable for your Road Trip Scarf! I have no doubt that it's beautiful! I love this yarn. I need to know how many balls of yarn you ended up using as I only have 2 balls left. I'd hate to start only to find out I didn't have enough. Also, what size hook did you use with this particular yarn? I hope you see this and are able to reply! Thanx for reading!

greeting from Indonesia,I'll try for my next project

Hi! Will Elle Premiere Dk cotton work for this? Any other suggestions as to which cotton I can use? I'm from South Africa too. Thanks so much for the great pattern!

Absolutely! I would suggest using a 0.50mm bigger hook though - the premier is a bit "tight" so relaxing the stitch is a good idea for better drape. The Coffee Cotton is excellent - I see quite a few stores stock it now. You could also use Raeesah Cotton Soft or Strawberries & Cream Recycled Cotton. These are all very economically priced . The Raeesah is inclined to "split" so it can be a bit frustrating to work with. Give New Kayo a call (011)935-2429 and speak to a girl named Zeenat - she is extremely helpful and their service is excellent (they courier countrywide) - she will be able to advise you on what they have in stock at the moment.

Thanks so much for the reply! I started with some Strawberries and Cream. Going is slow as I am so busy with other orders. Can't wait to finish. The Strawberries and cream is working a treat.

Oh, I'll be looking out for the coffee cotton. Can't wait to get my hands on it!

This is beautiful! Is the pattern written in UK or US terms?

Hi Lisa! All my patterns are written in US terms.

Thank you. :)

I have only been crocheting for a few months and been looking at this longingly! Just finished it today in the most beautiful autumn coloured wool and it is stunning. Thank you for this wonderful pattern :)

I love that you just grab those beautiful yarns and turn them into beautiful and fanciful clothing. I love the embellishments and the flowers and braids really make this unique! I'm gonna look for some really nice yarn and make one for me

I love your Zooty Owl. This scarf will definitely be one of my next projects. Thanks.

Hi. I picked up an almost completed scarf with the pattern. I finished it and want to commend you on the pattern, especially the trim and flowers. I love the trim. I am looking forward to sewing on the flowers and showing it off to my stitching group.

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ERRATA: There is a typo in Row 212. It should read: K1, K2tog, K1,/ P to last 2 its / K1, Kfb. ​ And Row 343 should read: K1, Kfb, K3, sm, K4, K1, uls, K1.

Galina Kostikova has translated this pattern into Russian. You can find her here on Ravelry.

It is time for a virtual road trip! Enjoy historical markers and museums as you vicariously travel and explore while knitting this fun shawl! Choose 3 skeins of fingering weight yarn, size 5 and 4 needles, and have fun!

I originally designed this as a mystery knit along for the Fox Valley Knitters Guild in St. Charles, Illinois. Little detours and car damage have all been worked out. But, until it is all polished and while we are all staying safe at home, I am sharing this pattern for free!

Stay home, save lives, knit on and smile!

Your gauge may vary and so will the size. Adjust your needle size to achieve a fabric you like! If you are using yarn from your stash, you can easily rearrange your colors as you travel along.

I recommend 250 to 300 yards of each. Color A = Dark Color B = a medium Pop Color C = Light (you may like a tonal, tweed or lightly variegated

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The Road Trip Shawl is a great travel companion! Long rows of mock garter in speckled yarn offset simple but delightful lace sections that mimic migrating butterflies, rows of crop fields and wildflowers growing in open fields. Along the way you’ll crochet in rhythmic mock garter stitch much like the endless miles of highway traveled.

Please note that this pattern is not written in the traditional way with stitch counts every single row. Stitch count is given at the end of each section to help keep you on track but if you have one or two extra just work with it and keep going, no one is going to count your stitches while you’re wearing it ;) You will be increasing by one on every row.

987 - 1,143 yards of dk weight yarn, 1 progress keeper/marker

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The Summer Road Trip Shawl is a project that is perfect for taking along on your summer holiday, whether you are travelling on the road or enjoying a staycation in your backyard! This simple asymmetric bias shawl is fun to knit and takes advantage of assigned pooling to introduce some very enjoyable texture and colour that is easy to memorize. This shawl can be knit as either a one or two skein project and if you like you can add an additional optional pop of colour in your final border with a mini skein . This shawl shape is perfect for summer wear as the curve created by the simple shawl shaping hugs your shoulders and keeps you cozy on a cool evening.

Photos:   Sample 1 is a  one skein shawl is worked in Juniper and has a border of  Lodgepole Pine. Sample 2 is a two skein shawl is worked in Gentian, and does not have a border.

Gauge 24 sts and 32 rows in 10cm/4”. Gauge is not crucial for this project but significant differences may change the size of your shawl.

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The Golden Rules of Road Tripping

Ahhhh, the great American road trip . A chance to put rubber to pavement along our millions of miles of roads and see the nooks and crannies of the country we’d never otherwise see. Road trips can be truly transformative travel journeys, a meditative way to traverse the countryside, meeting interesting people and exploring unusual sites. They’re also a chance to connect with your fellow road trippers, engaging in hours of conversation you wouldn’t have time for at home.

Along with all that good stuff, road trips have the potential for some big pitfalls, too, and in order to make sure your road trip is more life-changing than life-ruining, there are some basic guidelines first-time and veteran road trippers should follow. So, we talked to the experts (including a gas station food evangelist) who shared their savviest road trip tips and tricks—from how to mentally (and physically) prepare for long road ahead to logistical planning recommendations.

Book your hotels ahead of time

When you see a strip of hotels off an Interstate exit hundreds of miles from the nearest city, you may wonder how they ever fill all those rooms. That is, until you need a room and find they’re all sold out. Booking hotels in advance might lock you into ending your day in a certain destination, but it also saves you some headaches.

“If you’re okay with a roadside motel, you might be ok just picking a random spot. But if you want something a little nicer, don’t count on rooms being available,” says Condé Nast Traveler luxury travel specialist Jonathan Alder.

But you don’t always have to sacrifice flexibility and spontaneity for the promise of a place to sleep. “I normally book hotels in advance of the trip, but I like to change my mind on things sometimes,” says Darley Newman , host and producer of PBS’ Travels with Darley . “And if I wanna change the plan to be able to cancel 24 hours in advance, I think it’s really helpful. So I'll pay extra to do that.”

Roadside diners, food trucks, and yes, even gas stations, may surprise you with their tasty regional food.

Search out your roadside meals

It might be tempting to make a highway exit franchise row your lunch stop. But settling for processed tacos or sub sandwiches can mean missing out on some fantastic regional food .

“Some of the best expressions of regional food flavors and unique culinary styles can be found in gas stations,” says Frank Beard, a traveling sales rep who’s become an evangelist for the convenience store industry, and once spent an entire month eating at only gas stations . “Just because someone has four walls and a gas pump doesn’t mean they can’t do something different.”

Some of his favorites include Papu’s Café in Kansas City, who has a top-tier chicken shawarma sandwich; Pig Trail Cafe in Arkansas, who puts out one of the best burgers in the South; and Dallas’ Chef Point Café , another gem which has appeared on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.

Make sure your tires are filled and your fluids are topped off

Much like drinking enough water and sleeping eight hours a night, car maintenance is something you know you should do, but don’t always practice. But out of all their road trip tips, experts insist this is the biggest factor that’ll help prevent a disaster on the road.

McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty, an auto enthusiasts association that plans road trips for its members, emphasizes the importance of making sure your fluids are topped off and the oil is changed. “I also tend to change my batteries out if I’m going on a long drive,” he adds.

Alder concurs: “Check your tires before you go on a long trip to see if anything is too thin,” he says. “You don’t wanna be stuck 500 miles from home and find out one of your tires is getting old and needs to be replaced. Same with coolant and oil. If you’ve got an electric car, you don’t have those but you still need to top off your wiper fluid. You’ve still got bugs stuck to your windshield.”

Bring enough food and water

“The snack situation is key,” says Newman. “You don’t wanna be hungry. That’s the worst. Make sure that everybody is gonna be okay if you’re traveling in a group, because if something goes wrong with the weather or planning you want everyone to be okay for a few hours.”

It’s doubly important for water, she says, because being dehydrated is even worse than being hungry. She suggests packing a case of water in the car, and using reusable bottles to fill up wherever you can to be a little more sustainable. And packing extra water for high-altitude drives.

“Especially if you’re going into altitude,” she says, “People don’t realize if you’re going through Colorado, driving up and down, you have to get acclimated. So bring plenty of water for that one.”

Pack a bag for your car too

Your car is as much a part of your road trip crew as the people inside it. So just like you pack a bag with snacks and water for everyone riding along, you should also pack a bag for your car. “Don’t just pack your own bag, pack a bag of a few extras for the car itself,’ says Hagerty. “Rags, ways to clean the windshield, a jack is always helpful. Most people don’t need to bring a lot of tools along, but I always bring a multi-tool and a flashlight too.”

Packing your bags—and the car itself—in an organized fashion can save you future frustration on long drives.

Pack the car the same way every time

One of the biggest headaches on any road trip is tossing the entire contents of your car onto the asphalt as you frantically search for a phone charger you packed…somewhere. Though it might sound slightly OCD, packing your car the exact same way, every day, solves this problem, and everyone in the car will know exactly where their stuff is. It also keeps you from having to reimagine how to creatively stuff nine suitcases in the trunk of a Prius every morning.

“I pack the same pieces of luggage every time and load them in the same order, in the same spots so I'm not playing Tetris every time we get in and out of the car,” says Elizabeth Narins, who works for the Hotel Lilien in the Catskills and makes regular family road trips to Boston, New York City, and Washington DC. She says the practice is especially helpful for families. “The stroller always goes on top so it's easy to make impromptu stops and lug the kids and their stuff. I hate clutter but can't tell you how many times all of this stuff came in handy and made impromptu park stops so much more fun for my kids.”

Don’t depend entirely on your phone’s maps

Our over-reliance on technology never becomes more obvious than when your cell signal goes out in the middle of nowhere, and all of a sudden you’re stuck navigating remote mountain roads without a helpful voice telling you when to turn. This is why going old school and learning how to read a paper map can be a valuable backup, as can downloading directions offline.

“When you’re off the beaten path, you don’t know what you’ll find in terms of cell coverage,” says Beard. “It’s helpful to download offline maps to your phone (you can click to download it). Your GPS will always work but if you get into an area where towers aren’t good or you can’t get data, you don’t want to have to navigate out.”

Open yourself to spontaneity

There is a fine line between effective planning and overplanning, but nearly all the experts agreed that you always want to leave room for spontaneous side trips. “Leave enough time to have those moments of randomness,” says Hagerty. “You really can’t do that if you’ve mapped out every minute of every day.”

Even if you do your research and plan out roadside attractions to visit , you may discover there’s even more to see along your route. So leaving time to explore them is important.

“Several times I thought I’d researched everything, then you see something on the side of the road that’s quirky or interesting,” says Beard. “I was on a road trip and thought I’d found all the best gas station food, then I see this plume of smoke coming up from the side of the road in Missouri. And it was this truck stop where they had a homemade, chain-drive smoker, and it was some of the best barbecue of my life.”

Use the bathroom whenever you have the chance

In a larger group, nothing will throw you off schedule faster than an unsynchronized bathroom schedule. So Newman says to make sure everyone goes when you take a bathroom break, regardless of whether they think they have to. “I traveled in the desert of Jordan with the Bedouin and they have an expression: If you see shade, use the shade. It’s the same thing: Find the bathroom, use the bathroom, “ she says. “So if you are hitting a rest stop and someone in your group is like, ‘Oh, I don't really have to go right now,’ and they're drinking a Big Gulp, you need to be like, ‘Hey, you need to use the restroom, please. Let's just be on the same page about it.’”

Good music and good conversation are two of our favorite parts about a long road trip—so be sure to leave room for both.

Make some playlists, but don’t fill every minute of the ride

The music you listen to can be as much a part of the road trip experience as the food you eat and the scenery outside. Listening to curated road trip playlists don’t just ensure you have good music, they can expose you to other people’s musical tastes as well. “Having good music can make for a better road trip,” says Newman. “I love that sometimes, I'm listening to other people's music, and then I'm putting it on my own Spotify on that trip. So I think it can be a fun way to get a trip going.”

But filling every minute of the drive with music can also cheat you out of quality conversation time—a rarity in today’s busy world. So Hagerty suggests turning the music off for a while and seeing where the talking takes you. “You get to have long conversations you don’t get to have with people at home,” he says. “Deep stuff. And you can connect thoughts to completion, which is so rare in life, so my wife and I plan conversations for these 100-mile drives.”

Limit driving to four to six hours per day

If you’re just trying to get from A to B as fast as possible, four to six hours of driving isn’t going to cut it. But if your road trip is equal parts journey and destination, Alder says your road time should top off somewhere in this range. “If you plan more than [4 to 6 hours], you're just gonna be spending all your daylight hours driving versus getting out and going shopping at some cute little country store, or stopping for a great lunch, or experiencing something that's just amazing you've never heard of in your life,” he says. “And getting that opportunity also means not burning yourself out.”

If you’re driving electric, plan meals with your charging stops

Alder, an avid Tesla driver, insists you can make long distance road trips in electric cars , especially with Tesla opening its vast network of supercharging ports to all electric cars by next year. Still, charging your car will take longer than filling a gas tank, so using that time wisely can help make the most of your road trip. Tesla’s app, as well as several other EV apps like PlugShare, will show you where charging ports are located all along your route.

“I'll sit before I go on a road trip and look at not only where the chargers are, but at what restaurants are next to the chargers,” he says. “So if I don't like anything at one charger, I can look and see there's another one three miles down the road that has something perfect. That way not only am I using that time for a nice lunch and enjoying myself, but I won’t have to do a separate charging stop.”

Let stuff go

Even the best laid road trip plans can get thrown to the wayside, whether because of road closures, weather, car issues, or any of the other litany of things that can arise along the way. Newman says the most important thing you can do is maintain a good attitude, and accept the hiccups as part of the experience.

“You really have to just roll with it,” she says. “You're gonna hit traffic, there's gonna be issues. So if you can just be a little more relaxed about it, that is probably my number one rule. Just don't get too upset about anything because it's really just not worth it.”

For more road trip tips, check out our full guide to planning a stress-free road trip .

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Road Trip Shawl is made of fun little details, yet the sole purpose is to make this shawl relaxing to knit with striking, easy to wear outcome. This shawl features a little ribbing, a little brioche and a good handful of solid garter stitch. Choose your colors and follow the road!

Yarn: 3 skeins of Merino Singles by La Bien Aimée (100% Merino Wool; 400 yards (366meters) per 100g). Approx. 1125 yards (1030 meters) of fingering weight yarn: 375 yards (340 meters) of all three colors MC, CC1 and CC2. The sample was knit in colorways Parchment (MC, natural) and Nebula (CC1, blue) and Interstellar (CC2, white speckled).

Finished measurements: Approx. 95” (240 cm) wingspan, measured from end to end in a straight line, and 31½” (80 cm) deep at deepest point.

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