Piano scarf

Ok, so this is the COOLEST thing EVER! It's called Illusion (or shadow) knitting and I'm totally addicted! I started my first pattern 3 nights ago and at first it's kind of confusing, but really it's truly easy once you understand the basics of it.

highlight: you get a chart, and there are 4 knitted/purled rows per line of the chart...I know, it sounds confusing but it's really not! Lets say there are 31 lines on the chart (horizontally). Each line has 40 boxes across. The boxes either are white or black. So the pattern is as follows:

k in CA across.

k white, purl black

Switch to CB and k across

k black, purl white

Now that consists of just one line in the chart. then you move to line two and the boses are shaded different colors, so even though you follow the same pattern, it turns out different! And what results is when you knit on the wrong side, it leaves ridges on the right side, and when you look at it from the side you will see a picture! but from front on all you see is stripes!

Here's the ravelry pattern I did: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/counterpoint-scarf

and here's what I've done so far:

The pattern calls for cascade yarn, but since I'm poor I just used peaches and cream cotton yarn from Walmart and it's perfect!

~~Cheri~~