How to Use a Frill

About the only thing you see the frilly yarns used for are the scarves that are all frill. But those yarns are so full of possibilities!

Here are some other uses.

 1. Beginnings

Easiest cast-on in the book: just pick up along the frill. Casting off is a bit harder, but not difficult. What I usually do is cast off with another yarn, picking up a bit of the frilly yarn in each stitch cast off.

2. Down the Middle

The pink one is a bit of fun, frilly and shiny and lacy. I did one of the frilly yarns down the middle, one ridge forward and back. This gives a lovely frill down the middle on both sides.

Here are a few closer looks.

 I really like this one!

The brown one uses the frilly yarn as the center section. I laid the frill yarn out, had it do a U-turn and then joined it down the middle to get the width, and then I knit around and around, and finished with the same frill yarn.

3. Round and Round

This is based on Kim Salazar's Kureopatora scarf, which is one of my go-to patterns. In between each section I knit one row of a frilly yarn (so the frill was on one side), and then started the next section. This makes the frill wrap around the scarf.

It's difficult to get a good picture of the effect, so I tried to show it with the lines below.

Here is a blue version, maybe you can see the wraparound here, too.

 It's a start. I think there are still more things to discover.