hey it's a free yarn and I'm about to work a band of afterthought Pharrell on the ends of this scarf afterthought fair isle is a technique that's usually used in knitting to give the look of fair isle stitch pattern but it's not done while you're knitting it's done after the fact by almost embroidering through the Knitting with a piece of contrasting yarn and it gives the look of real fair isle when in fact you actually did it after you finished your project so this is made on the ad emitting machine I will put a link to this video for the Super scarf project in the description box this is going to be my stitch pattern this is my Faro stitch pattern that I've drawn out what I have here is my piece is 46 stitches wide on each side this is reversible this is double-sided so I'm doing it on both sides so my design here needs to be 23 stitches wide to be repeated twice on each side of my scarf so I'm going to work this motif once over here once here and then on the other side once here and once here and I just drew this chart out on graph paper I'm going to be using white red and gray so this blue right here is representing the background this is the stitches that I'm leaving on embroidered and I'm going to start with white so I have several yards of white yarn thread it into my tapestry needle and the first thing I need to do to determine where my first white stitch is going to be is place my diagram and I need to decide where I want it so I'm going to put it right about here and this bottom row is what we're going to work first so I'm gonna find the first stitch on this bottom rail because I'm starting from the center which is the fourth stitch in from this center line here so if this is gonna be my bottom row then I need to find this Center one two three four so I'm gonna come up as you can see on a regular knit stitch this is a regular knit stitch the yarn comes up through the stitch below up around under the legs of the stitch above it and back down through the stitch below so I'm gonna come up in the stitch below where I want my stitch to be and I'm gonna go up above the stitch I want and through the legs of the stitch above it and I'm going to come back down through the bottom of that stitch back where I just came up so that is one fair isle knit stitch for the afterthought Faro and if I look at my chart here here's the white stitch I just did I need to skip a stitch and work the next stitch anyway so I'm going to skip another stitch in that row and work for the next stitch in the row so now I'm going to go up above that stitch and follow the yarn in the stitch through the legs above and back down where I came up and there's a second station so if I look at my diagram now I need to skip two stitches and work the next one in white so I'm gonna skip this one this one and come up right here in this one I can go up through the legs above and back down where I just came up and I find it helpful to come up through the next stitch as I learned down from the stitch I'm just finishing so I have white stitch I skip one have another white stitch I skip to another white stitch skip two so I'm going to skip two I'm not going to come up in that stitch or that stitch but the one after it I'm going to come down and then I'm going to come up as my diagram shows me two stitches later so I'm going to skip two and then come up again and work for the next one I'm gonna come down and then I'm going to skip to more as my diagram shows and work the next one and you may need to adjust the tension of your stitches so that they are properly visible on the surface of the fabric and as you can see here if the legs of the stitches don't touch in the middle then they're too tight so you're going to need to stretch that yarn so we're gonna go ahead and pull from over here a little slack move it over so now we have these instead of just a double line because we want these to look just like the knit stitches they don't have to touch perfectly you just want them to be more v-shaped you so now I finished the bottom row of my diagram I'm going to move up to the next row and I'm going to be moving in the opposite direction when we go this way just to make sure you can see it I'm doing I'm gonna do a little close-up shot here now this is the stitch I'm coming out of right here I'm going to work this little loop around so I'm going to come up at the base of that stitch which is in the stitch below it now I'm going to follow the legs of that stitch up underneath the legs of the stitch above and pull my yarn right through there and now I'm going to go back down where I came up originally to finish off the stitch so that I get that entire loop now I'm going to come up in the next stitch that needs to be done in white and that is this stitch right here and I'm going to come up at the base of the stitch which looks like it's in the stitch below it and then I'm going to come across underneath the legs of the stitch above and back down and it come up in the base of the stitch I want to work across underneath the legs of the stitch above and back down where I started and as you can see here I've got the entire white section of the motif done now just so that you know how to tie off with this I'm going to tie off a piece that I left undone for this purpose and as you can see here I have a lot of tails because if you work with a very very long piece of yarn then it can kind of get in the way so I work with your lengths of yarn about two to three yarns long and then once I'm once I run out of that yarn then I start a new piece so when I need to tie off the end of a section of yarn I thread that end onto my needle and as you can see this stitch right here is where the yarn is coming out of this was the last stitch worked with this piece and I'm going to gently you cannot pull this tight or else it will distort or even pull really tight the stitch that you worked in the surface these little segments of yarn right here that are stretched across the back of the work are called floats so I'm going to slip my needle underneath one of those floats wrap the tail of yarn around the tip of my needle and very carefully tighten the knot without tightening the stitches worked and you can't see it on the outside if it's working correctly now I have all of the red stitches worked in my motif and as you can see I've just gone back in between the white stitches where the red stitches were supposed to go and worked those stitches the same way I did the white ones and all of the red yarns are floated across the back and the work just like in the light now I just have to work the gray stitches in between so here are my finished afterthought Ferro motifs I finished all of the Reds to choose the ways to just in the grace stitches and I just want to note here that when you do this it does increase the thickness of the fabric by about double and it also limits the stretch but since this is on the end of a scarf I don't need it to stretch and I also want to show here that when the gray yarn had to stretch across a long length in the back to reach the next working stitch I just slipped it I went underneath one of the other floats of yarn to help keep that from getting in the way and getting caught on things which is especially important if this is the inside of something that's going to be worn but since it's in the inside of the scarf it doesn't really matter a whole lot because this is going to be closed up and that's not going to be able to get caught up in anything so I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope you give the afterthought ferrule technique a try thanks for watching bye