Comments on: Knitting Tutorial: Pom Pom Faux Mink Scarf

By: Knitting | Pom-Pom Scarf [With Video] | Free Pattern & Tutorial at CraftPassion.com

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:19:51 +0000

[...] more pictures I made another pom-pom scarf again, this time it is a little different from the green pom-pom scarf I have made 2 years ago. Time flies so fast and it was like yesterday that I have got the first [...]

By: New Addicted Knitter

New Addicted Knitter — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:18:26 +0000

I am very new to knitting (I learned last week). I’m on holiday, am determined and for years said I couldn’t do this knitting thing. Well now I can!… almost. Kitting is very addictive!

My problem. My Ma had this pretty wool, she never used it so I snatched it up (so I have it with no wrapper with handy instructions on it). After watching a few you tube vids, inventing my own way of casting on and knitting for a day, I have this gorgeous scarf that is impossible to bind off!

My wool is a non standard size, I think, (I can only do one stitch between each pom pom). To describe the poms are seemingly half the size of the Rico brand poms. The string between wraps around (the 3.75 mm needles I am using) only one full circle.

Using the usually cast off method of slipping the last stitch over the new stitch I am left with a pleasing crotchet effect – but the end is all bunched up. It doesn’t have the stretch of the start side.

As I am working with 9 stitches facing up k2tog leaves one behind and (as I understand it) tapers the rows down to a point. I want it to look the same as the flat start.

I’ve tried casting off (over half a day and multiple different ways). I am writing a note to every vid and help site is search of help as my last resort is to strip the poms off the string and cast off that way (it just doesn’t seem to be the elegant solution to me – and I’ve only been doing this a week!) There just has to be a cleaver solution to this prob, I’m too novice to figure it out on my own.

I would be grateful for any advice given.

By: Craft Passion

Craft Passion — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:13:35 +0000

Glad & happy to know this, thanks! Do come back for other tutorials

By: Kanani

Kanani — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:26:15 +0000

Love this pom pom faux mink scarf knitting tutorial! I bought this great pom pom yarn and was looking for a unique way to knit and show it off – this tutorial had it all: innovative and informative.

By: janis

janis — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:27:51 +0000

Just saw above instruction for tying ends together when adding another skein.sorry for that!

By: janis

janis — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:26:03 +0000

I need to add another ball of pom pom yarn… how is that done. I was going to tie together.

By: Craft Passion

Craft Passion — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:58:53 +0000

Hi Betty, you need to knit 2 together then cast off by bringing the loop over, just like you cast off your stitches in your normal knitting. Hope this help

By: Betty

Betty — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:59:17 +0000

Thanks for the instructions on how to knit with this yarn. I’ve finished my scarf but can’t for the life of me figure out how to bind off. I have three sets of two stitches on my needle. If I knit two together, I end up with 3 stitches on my needle. If I knit those stitches together, two at a time, the end of my scharf will come to a point and not look like the cast-on end. Can someone please describe the bind off a little more clearly for me. I must be missing something here. Thank you in advance for your help.

By: Craft Passion

Craft Passion — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:31:15 +0000

Hi Gail, I think knotting the yarn ends together is the best way to join the yarn.
To bind off, just cast off by knitting 2 stitches together (K2tog).

By: Gail

Gail — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:29:50 +0000

I love this yarn. Do you have an easy method of attaching the next ball of yarn though? I’ve been tying the new yarn to the previous at the spot where the next pom starts. Also, how to finsh the binding off since you can’t weave in the tail as usual.

Thanks