Baktus is a scarf pattern that originated with Scandinavian knitting bloggers and has been very popular this year.
You take a ball of sock yarn, cast on four stitches, and increase gradually until you’ve used just under half the ball (judging by weight), then decrease at the same rate. I’ve knitted two so far.
The first is in a purplish shade of the self-striping Schoppel-Wolle Admiral Ombré.
The second is the lacy version of Baktus, featuring yarn-overs every eighth row, in Fearless Fibers’ lightweight sock yarn in a deep foresty green.
I have to admit I prefer the lacy version to knit, because it’s easier to tell whether you need to increase or not on any given row; in the plain version, it all gets a bit same-y and it’s hard to tell which row you’re on if your attention slips at all.
Both are really nice to wear and perfect lightweight scarves for San Francisco’s cold summers, where it can get chilly in the evenings even through July and August.
