How to Knit a Ruffle-Edged Scarf

Knit the Scarf Center

1). Review basic knitting techniques for casting on stitches, working the knit stitch and binding off, if you are a beginner knitter.
2). Cast on approximately 15 to 20 stitches to start the flat, center portion of the scarf, which should measure 3 inches to 4 inches across.
3). Knit each stitch in every row until the knitted fabric is the length you want for your scarf. A typical scarf measures between 36 inches and 60 inches long.
4). Bind off stitches until one stitch remains on the right-hand needle. Do not bind off this stitch.

1). Rotate your fabric so that long edge of the scarf closest to the needle faces upward, with your right-hand knitting needle holding the last stitch in the right-hand corner.
2). Pick up a new stitch in every row across the long edge by inserting the right-hand needle under the horizontal strand at end of a row. Wrap the yarn around the needle once and pull a loop through the fabric, keeping this new loop on the needle.
3). Place the needle containing the new stitches in your left hand when you reach the end of the scarf and you are ready to begin knitting the ruffle.
4). Increase in every stitch across the row by knitting into the front loop and then the back loop of each stitch across. This forms a knit front and back (Kfb) increase and allows you to create two stitches for every one stitch in the row.
5). Repeat Step 4 to increase every stitch across the row again so that you quadruple the number of starting stitches.
6). Knit every stitch in every row until the ruffle measures approximately 2 inches, or the width you want for your scarf.
7). Bind off all stitches on the ruffle.
8). Repeat Steps 2 to 7 to add a ruffled edge to the opposite side of the scarf.