Snakey Keyhole Scarf

Sup knitters

I haven’t been a very inspired knitter lately, but I used to improvise all kinds of patterns. When my son Hank was a toddler - before he could talk, and thus protest - I knit him lots of things out of wool.

I knit him a sweater vest with his favorite planet on it.

And one time, in a moment of hyper-fixated obsession, I paused Pink Floyd’s The Wall and did my best to chart and knit Young Pink’s Fair Isle sweater vest.

I always jot down notes and charts on graph paper for my own use, but I didn’t properly write down any patterns except for one. In 2008 I made a child’s scarf that looked like a snake. It had a head with a forked tongue on one end, a tail on the other, and a keyhole to fasten it. It was cute, so I wrote the pattern out in a careful way, with charts, and posted it on the knitting blog I kept back then. That blog has been defunct for a long time, but I found the pattern recently and thought I’d share it here because I still think it’s cute.