Classic Elite Yarns Dungloe Scarf Knitting Pattern

Classic Elite Yarns Dungloe Scarf

What Is Being Made

The Dungloe is a lace scarf originally published in the Emerald Isle 1508 printed collection of designs. This intermediate-level knitting project creates a finished scarf measuring 8½ inches wide at its widest point and 70 inches long when blocked. The design features alternating panels of textural elements that create visual and tactile interest, resulting in a soft, squishy hand feel ideal for everyday wear.

Knitting Techniques Used

This scarf employs several key knitting techniques to achieve its distinctive appearance and structure:

• Bottom-up construction: The scarf is worked from the cast-on edge upward, allowing knitters to easily adjust the final length by adding or removing pattern repeats as desired.
• Seamless, flat knitting: The entire piece is worked flat on straight needles without seaming, creating a continuous, unified fabric.
• Lace elements: Eyelet details are incorporated throughout the design using yarn overs and decreases to create openwork sections that add visual lightness and elegance.
• Slipstitch edges: The side edges are finished with slipstitches worked purlwise with yarn in front, creating neat, finished selvage edges that naturally roll to the wrong side when blocked.

Stitches Used

The Dungloe pattern relies on a primary stitch pattern called Garter Eyelet Rib, which is worked over an odd number of stitches in a 16-row repeat. This stitch pattern combines three distinct textural elements:

• Garter stitch: Created by knitting every row, this foundational stitch produces horizontal ridges and provides structure and stability to the fabric.
• Eyelet lace: Formed using yarn overs paired with single-stitch decreases (ssk), these openwork elements appear in the pattern as Row 7 of each repeat, creating delicate holes that allow light to pass through.
• Ribbed sections: Alternating knit and purl stitches create vertical lines of texture that add visual interest and contribute to the scarf's dimensional quality.

The scarf begins with a cast-on of 35 stitches, with 2 stitches reserved on each side for garter stitch and slipstitch edges, leaving 31 center stitches for the main Garter Eyelet Rib pattern. The pattern is repeated 25 complete times, then Rows 1–6 are worked once more, totaling 406 rows before binding off all stitches loosely knitwise.

Materials: Yarn and Needles

The Dungloe pattern calls for Big Liberty Wool by Classic Elite Yarns, a 100% washable wool yarn. The project requires 6 balls of yarn in colorway 1032 Mulberry, with each ball containing 50 grams and yielding 82 yards. Note that the scarf shown in the pattern uses only a small portion of the sixth ball, making it possible to complete a shorter scarf using only 5 balls by eliminating one or two pattern repeats.

Knitting needles in US size 10 (6 mm) are required, or a size that allows you to obtain the correct gauge. The recommended gauge is 16½ stitches and 23 rows over 4 inches when measured in the Garter Eyelet Rib pattern after blocking. Checking gauge before beginning is essential to ensure the finished scarf achieves the intended dimensions.

Finishing

After completing all 406 rows and binding off, finishing is minimal and straightforward. Weave in all yarn ends securely, then block the scarf to the specified measurements. During blocking, allow the slipstitch edges to naturally roll to the wrong side, which creates a polished, professional appearance.