Motor Scarf

1. This motor-scarf may be of pink and white, or any preferred colors of Shetland floss. Use wooden needles and cast on 100 stitches with pink.
2. 1, 3. Purl.
3. 2. Knit plain.
4. 4. Knit 3, over twice, narrow; repeat across, ending with knit 3.
5. 5. Purl, dropping 2d of the over-twice loops.
6. 6. Knit plain.
7. 7, 9. With white, purl.
8. 8, 10. Knit plain.
9. Repeat until the scarf is of the length required. The sides are finished with shells, in white, making 8 trebles, well drawn out, in the center of the pink stripe, and fastening in center of white stripe with 1 double.
10. Finish the ends with fringe knotted in, six inches long and composed of 10 threads each of pink and white.

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