okay it's time for a scarf of the week and today we're making a mock plaid scarf this is a really interesting pattern because it's made with two balls of self-striping yarn both the same colorway but you get what looks like a lot of really interesting color work but that's just achieved by working with two balls of the same color of self-striping yarn and the key is that you want to start each ball at a different point in the color repeat so with this yarn you can see that it goes from purple to green to blue to orange if you're going to start on the orange section in one ball start on the purple section on the other ball and that way your colors will be off sync which is the key to this scarf so I'm going to show you how to create this effect that's sort of the vertical line going up through the scarf that's what really makes this look like an intricate color work pattern and not just a stripe for example so I'm working on a wrong side row here and the important trick of the scarf happens on the wrong side rows so that's what we're going to see right now it starts with a knit four and that's just to do the garter stitch border that you see on the sides of the scarf and then we're going to purl five whoops okay and purling five now here's the key stitch here's the stitch that makes this whole scarf happen we're going to wrap the yarn twice when we purl the next stitch so instead of just wrapping once normally we wrap another time and complete the stitch and what that does is it creates an extra wrap that will make this elongated vertical kind of stripe that we have so i'm purling five again and now it's time to do that double wrap so i'm purling wrapping once and twice and then just complete the stitch and now I'm just going to knit the last four stitches of the row to create that garter stitch border and now I'm going to turn and work back across this row and show you what to do on those double wrapped stitches and at this point we will pick up our other color because every four rows we're switching colors so I'm going to begin knitting with the other ball of the yarn I'm going to knit four for a garter stitch border and then I'm going to just keep knitting five so I'm actually knitting nine to begin with okay now we're coming up on that special double wrap wrapped stitch from the previous row and you can see where it's double wrapped all we're going to do here is really easy just slip the stitch and let that wrap drop and the whole point of that was just that double wrap just created some extra slack in the yarn because we're going to be slipping that stitch across four rows so we just needed that yarn to have some extra wiggle room there so that it could actually slip for four rows so here we are in another wrap and I'm just slipping that stitch and then just keep knitting so now I'm going to jump ahead to this last little sample here and we would continue slipping that stitch for four rows and you can see that it really stretches up across those four rows and at this point you would now knit all the way across the row and knit those slip stitches and then that would just lock them down and make them regular stitches incorporated into that row and you would just keep knitting from there and that's what creates these really great vertical stripes going up the top of the scarf so this is really kind of a easy one that's got some tricks in it that makes it look really interesting and beautiful color work so this is a fun pattern to work on I hope you give it a try and I hope it turns out great for you you you