Knitted Skull Illusion Scarf

After seeing this Skull Illusion Scarf on Boing Boing, I just had to try it. I had never seen this type of knitting (called "shadow" or "illusion" knitting) before, but it was neat.

The online pattern was pretty easy to follow, and I made a printer-friendly version [pdf, 1.4MB], too.

I also uploaded a video of the finished scarf doing its thing to YouTube - check it out here or below. Also, here are some more shadow knitting resources:

• Shadow Knitting, the book
• Vivian Hoxbro's website (inventor of this style)
• Free patterns and links
• Illusion knitting on the DIY Network
• Shadow knitting on Wikipedia

See more patterns and projects on my Knitting page.