After making the baby hats from the rainbow acrylic yarn, I was left with a skein and a half of the stuff. Hm. The yarn has very short sections of color that repeated, could I knit it to make vertical stripes? The answer is: sort of. The color sections were not precise, so as I knitted I decreased or increased on the edges so the teal color lined up with the row before. I could then knit straight across without puckering the center of the fabric (although this might have been an interesting experiment as well). The resulting stripes undulated in interesting ways. Keeping the increases and decreases on the outside made the edges curl and pucker, but not entirely unpleasantly. It does help the edges curl in and hide the strange tan color the manufacturer threw into the mix.

Since I did not have enough to make a long scarf, I opted to join the ends to make an infinity scarf. I used the Kitchener stitch and a section of the rainbow repeat to join. I had to undo the foundation row and slip the loops onto a needle, then use a yarn needle to perform the steps of the stitch. There is a learning curve to the Kitchener stitch, but it is well worth the effort! I can see the join, because the colors don’t match up as well as I hoped, but the fabric is solid and smooth at the join, not a bulky seam. (There are many online tutorials for the Kitchener stitch for those interested, so I won’t repeat them here.)

All in all, an interesting exercise.