Saroyan is the third pattern in a series inspired by the television show Bones. Previous patterns include Traveling Woman and Temperance.
Dr. Camille Saroyan is intelligent, graceful, and uncompromisingly organized. The simple lace scarf would fit right at home in sleek and professional wardrobe.
Knit in one piece from start to finish, Saroyan is a perfect project for beginning lace knitters. This tapered scarf can be worn a variety of ways, and the construction helps to keep your neck nice and cozy. The lace edging used in this scarf is from a stitch dictionary titled Super Stitches Knitting. A garter stitch border rolls over nicely, so you only see the stocking stitch body and lovely lace edging. (This rolling can be prevented if desired.)
Much like Traveling Woman, this pattern is easily adjusted to your preference. Like the triangular shawl shape instead? Simply knit more repeats of the increase section, and then begin your decreases immediately. Prefer fingering weight yarn? Bust out your scale and weigh your yarn periodically.
Yarn:
Femme Fatale Fibers – Venus Worsted (185 yd/115 g), 2 skeins. Shown in Poison Sleep.
Available at feminist.etsy.com
Recommended needles:
One US 10 (6.0mm) circular needle, your choice of length (I’d recommend 24” or longer).
Gauge:
After blocking: 4 sts, 5 rows = 1 inch
I did not block very aggressively.
Finished Size:
12 in at widest point, 69 in long (tip to tip)
Pattern Notes:
Don’t be afraid to be bold with this pattern. It can be knit in almost any yarn weight in practically any size. The increase, decrease, and straight sections are designed so that they can be easily added or subtracted to the pattern.
The worsted weight sample shown has 6 increase repeats, 10 straight repeats, and 6 decrease repeats (22 leaves total). Each repeat will give you one leaf. I had less than 5 grams of yarn left when finished.
Scarf shape and construction:
I’ve made a color-coded diagram to explain the construction and shape. The numbers in (parenthesis) indicate the number of stitches for the pattern as written. The percentages indicate how much of your yarn you will need for each piece. These figures are approximate, not exact.
Saroyan is free to knit, so why not start now? Download the pattern for free here, or on Ravelry.
See this blog post for other languages.
Have you translated Saroyan? Email me or leave a comment!
If you like the leaf edging, but don’t like the construction, check out Alana’s (Never Not Knitting) Cedar Leaf Shawlette. Her construction is different and may be preferred by some knitters.
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That’s a really, really great edging!
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I am in awe of your talent and am completely humbled by your generosity. I’m printing this pattern right now. It’s fantastic! Thank you for making it available – free!
I love your Bones inspired patterns. It is one of my favorite shows. I love the leaf edging on the Saroyan shawl, so pretty. I’m going to have to knit them all up soon. Thanks!
This looks like fun – I can’t wait to try it!
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This pattern is beautiful and I am so appreciative of you giving it away for free. Thank you
I love this pattern. I have been intrigued by leafy lace borders and am excited to try my hand. I have also been looking for the perfect Holiday scarf/shawl for myself, and this just might be it! I also love your Bones inspired theme. I have gotten into that show lately.
Thanks for the free pattern! You rock!
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I love your scarves, and I’m totally with you on the Bones references!
Have no idea what sort of a program “Bones” is as I am not much of a TV person…but I do absolutely love your designs. Will make Saroyan first, then Traveling Woman…you are very talented.
Have to say once again, you are definitely one very talented lady. Rec’d yarn today in Poison Sleep colorway. It is absolutely GORGEOUS. Can’t wait to start Traveling Woman once Saroyan is finished. Snowing here in Boston area today so I plan on knitting, knitting, knitting and gazing at my Poison Sleep!! Thanks for sharing your patterns!
Beautiful pattern – I’ve knit up two in the last three weeks. :)
Thank you so much for posting the pattern!
Hi!!
I ask you permission to translate the Saroyan for the Portuguese.
I await answer.
Congratulions for your job.
Wonderful!
Thanks!
Bye!
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questa è una delle sciarpette più belle che ho mai visto, mi piacerebbe tanto realizzarla ma non capisco molto l’inglese e neanche il francese!!!!
Tanti, tanti complimenti!!!
Another beautiful design! Now I can’t choose between this one and the other gorgeous shawl.
Thanks so much for sharing such great patterns!
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Hello,
I’m planning to make Saroyan (thank you for offering such a beautiful pattern for free) and wondering if you think it would work okay on straight needles (I’m a relatively new knitter)? I can deal with circular needles fine but already own the right size in straight…is there a reason you recommend circular? Thanks,
Dectora Gander
PS for some reason the “contact” window of your site doesn’t seem to work well – I tried with Firefox and Safari…
A friend showed me a swatch of the edging and that’s all it took — You had me a the edging :)
Thank you for the beautiful pattern!
I added the leaf edging (in reverse) along the straight edge, offsetting the upper edge pattern from the bottom edge pattern by half a leaf. I’ve posted pictures on Ravelry (I’m ShinKitten on Rav)
Liz,
I just finished the saroyan for our March Madness contest and it may be the best pattern I have ever made. I’ve been knitting for 50 years and this pattern was a delight to knit. I used Malabrigo worsted yarn and I was in knitting heaven with your wonderfully written pattern and the great yarn. Thanks so much for this and keep up the designing. Maybe a baby blanket with leaves?
Hi!
Three of us are knitting this and I am still in the increasing portion of the pattern. One of the girls has found a very noticeable line when doing the last third with the decreasing across the whole surface. Can you figure out what is going wrong? I am not that far yet, so I can’t explain it better. Has anyone had any problems with this? She (Tammy) says it looks like a purl instead of a knit stitch?
Thank you for your help. I have really enjoyed the pattern so far and also enjoy the way you explain everything so well.
Janie
Thanks for this instruction, I loved “traveling woman”, it was such a smooth knitting, thanks for offering them for free. Looking forward to knitting saroyan. So considerat of you to provide the chart on each page. Very clear instructions and designs.
Thanks for a great pattern. I’m making Saroyan for the Bones Group KAL on Rav for Season 6. After doing this pattern I plan to do Traveling Women. I was at the Rav meet up in SF earlier this year and lots of folks were knitting or wearing TW and loved it. Thanks for sharing your talent.
(Napiligal on RAV)
I love this scarf – I knitted it in handspun silk and it turned out so well, now all my friends want one!
thank you for your generosity.
I love this pattern! Last February, I started the pattern and before long….I was wearing it! I always get compliments when I wear it! Thank You for your talented pattern!
What do you mean by m1l or make 1 left
thanks for this “adorable ” shawl !
bravo et merci
What does m1l mean? I am stuck!!
hola estan preciosos por favor me podrias indicar donde consigo el molde gracias
merhaba sal modeli guzel olmus ellerinize saglik aciklamasini verirmisiniz simdiden tesekkur ederim
Help needed! What does slk2p mean? I’m stuck on Row 13 increase row, until answer received.
Thank you!
Please help! I’m stuck on increase row. What is slk2p? Translate please!
Thank you.
Hello Liz,
there´s a Czech translation of your amazing pattern. Thanks a lot, take care and LOL, J.
http://rooster-hill.blogspot.com/2012/02/ztraceno-v-prekladu.html
HI
I’ m new knitting. I don’t speak a good english.
I discover this page for one friend. I like Saroyan scarf. I dont know how find the pattern. I hope you can
tell me that.
Thanks
Hello,
I like so much your saroyan, so i have knitting some mitts inspirated of the saroyan
you can see my mitts here:
http://mapica.canalblog.com/archives/2012/03/13/23746749.html
thanks
Mathilde
matmaffet\’s last [type]: Copieuse ?
I, too, need to know what “m1l” means. It’s not listed in the abbreviations on the pattern!
Thanks in advance.
Thank you so much for sharing Saroyan! I knit mine in Plymouth’s Mushishi, and it’s stunning! Another knitter used Plymouth’s Kettle-Dyed, Superwash Merino in a green blend, plus she added beads! We’d love to send you photos of our shawls, so please let us know where we should send them…
This is such a beautiful pattern. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
I’m really enjoying knitting this. It might be my new favourite pattern ever. Thank you so much for your generosity in providing this gorgeous pattern free!
Jan
I love this pattern and have made it twice (if you don’t count the ripping back). I too am seeing a very noticeable difference between the increase and the decrease sides with the very unmistakable “band” running down the decreases. I am aware of a couple of other people with this same issue and I wonder if anyone ever figured it out?
Nyr
This is a beautiful scarf to knit. I’ve knitted two of these in the past two weeks. It was the first time I had attempted lace knitting after learning to knit 6 months ago. I’ve knitted one in Aran wool and one in a finer wool and both knitted well. Will definitely be knitting this again!! Thank you so much for a wonderful pattern
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