Beautiful Basketweave Scarf

The Basketweave Stitch is simple and turns out incredibly beautiful. If you're a beginner knitter, this is a perfect project to practice your counting! I made this scarf for my mom and she love love looooved it!

To make this scarf you will need:

• Two skeins of Impeccable Yarn in Burgundy
• US size 8 knitting needles

Skill Level: Beginner

1. Cast on 31 stitches. I like to give a pattern a border, so I left 3 stitches on both sides to do just in the knit stitch, hence the odd number of stitches.
2. First fives rows - K
3. Begin 8-row pattern:

• row 6 - K8, P5, K5, P5, K8
• row 7 - K3, P5, K5, P5, K5, P5, K3
• row 8 - K8, P5, K5, P5, K8
• row 9 - K3, P5, K5, P5, K5, P5, K3

4. Repeat rows 6 - 9 - now the pattern will be 8 rows high.

• row 13 - K8, P5, K5, P5, K8
• row 14 - K3, P5, K5, P5, K5, P5 K3

5. Rows 12 and 13 are the same, which means the pattern is flipping so that blocks can be created. I did 8 rows of the stitch because I found that that was the closest to creating a square - Feel free to add more or less rows as you choose!