Blue Sky Fibers Trellis Scarf

Blue Sky Fibers Trellis Scarf – Knitting Pattern by Ellen Huber

The Trellis Scarf is a beautifully textured, lace-patterned knitted scarf designed by Ellen Huber for Blue Sky Fibers (formerly Blue Sky Alpacas). This downloadable PDF pattern produces a luxuriously soft, warm scarf with fantastic drape, finished with long decorative fringe at both ends. The completed scarf measures 10 inches wide by 70 inches long, not including the fringe, making it a generously sized accessory perfect for cold-weather wear.

Who This Pattern Is For

The Trellis Scarf is rated Advanced Beginner, making it an ideal next step for knitters who have mastered basic knit and purl stitches and are ready to explore simple lace techniques. The repeat is easy to memorize, allowing knitters to work rhythmically and confidently from start to finish.

What Is Being Made

• Project type: A long, fringed lace scarf
• Finished dimensions: 10" wide × 70" long, excluding fringe
• Style: Luxuriously soft with open lace texture and dramatic drape, finished with hand-cut yarn fringe along both short edges

Yarn and Materials

• Yarn: Blue Sky Bulky – 4 hanks (100g / 45 yards per hank), a chunky to super chunky weight yarn
• Colorway shown: Azalea #1218
• Needles: Size 35 (19mm) knitting needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
• Crochet hook: Size S (19mm) crochet hook, used for attaching fringe

Blue Sky Bulky is a super chunky weight yarn known for its exceptional softness and warmth, which contributes directly to the luxurious hand and drape that define this scarf. Because gauge is noted as not essential for this project, knitters have some flexibility in needle sizing without compromising the final result.

Gauge

In the Trellis Pattern, 6 stitches and 5 rows = 4 inches. As noted in the pattern, achieving exact gauge is not critical for this project, giving knitters freedom to work comfortably with their chosen needle size.

Techniques Used

• Lace knitting: The Trellis Pattern creates an elegant, repeating openwork design using yarn overs paired with decreases, producing a delicate yet structured lace fabric.
• Cast on and bind off: 16 stitches are cast on; stitches are bound off knitwise at the end.
• Blocking: After weaving in ends, the scarf is blocked to open up the lace pattern and set the finished dimensions.
• Fringe application: A crochet hook is used to attach hand-cut fringe. Lengths of yarn are cut at 24 inches, held in pairs, folded in half, and looped through the short edges of the scarf — 13 fringe bundles on each end, evenly spaced, for a total of 26 fringe attachments.

Stitches Used

• Knit (K) – foundational knit stitch used at the edges of every row
• Purl (P) – used on wrong-side rows within the lace pattern
• Yarn over (Yo) – creates the decorative eyelets that define the lace
• Ssk (Slip, slip, knit) – a left-leaning decrease worked on right-side rows, paired with yarn overs to maintain stitch count
• P2tog (Purl 2 together) – a decrease worked on wrong-side rows, paired with yarn overs to mirror the RS lace structure
• K2tog (Knit 2 together) – a right-leaning decrease referenced in the abbreviations