Linux Tux Scarf

Alina Beate Haugene — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:30:45 +0000

In the month before easter my boyfriend lost his scarf, and requested me to make him one. I happily obliged to do it, seeing as I needed something new to knit on.
My boyfriend is a geek, so the pattern had to be geek. Now it was a little tricky to find something easy to knit, and yet geeky and him. I finally figured out that the mascot to his Operating System, Linux, would be awesome. It is a penguin.

I made the pattern with a blank graph paper and a picture of the penguin. I held the picture and graph paper up against a lamp and then I drew the outline. I bought the yarn needed, it is wool, not too thick and it is not the thinnest. In the colors of black, white and orange.

One problem though, how to make the backside of the scarf pretty as well? I solved it by making it like one foot had one thread and the other foot another thread. It got pretty messy after awhile, seeing as I had decided to make a white outline of the penguin. At one point I had 11 different threads ! Later I have realised that the white outline should have been sewed on when the scarf was done, oh well, lesson learned.

Below is the picture of my boyfriend with his new scarf.

A closer-up of the pattern.

The backside of the scarf

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Linux Tux Scarf