Circular Knitting Machine Scarf Pattern

This easy circular knitting machine scarf pattern is a great first project to make on a Sentro or Addi (or whatever brand you have) circular knitting machine.

Use whatever yarn you have that works well on the Sentro and make your scarf as long or as short as you like. This project will give you lots of practice cranking, and you can change colors or not as you like.

Supplies for a Knitting Machine Scarf

The best yarns for knitting machines are weights 3 or 4, also known as light/DK or medium/worsted respectively.

For my scarf I used a full skein of Lion Brand Heartland in color Kobuk Valley and most of a skein, about 170 yards, of Lion Brand Basic Stitch in Silver Heather. In all I used about 420 yards to make a scarf that’s 66 inches/1.67 meters long.

You’ll also need a knitting machine, of course! For this demonstration I used my Addi Express King size, but you could also use a Sentro with 48 or 40 pins would be fine, too. The difference in width of tubes made by these machines is not huge; all of them would be fine for a scarf.

For my circular knitting machine scarf pattern I like to use waste yarn at the beginning because it makes it easier to finish the scarf in different ways (which we’ll talk about in a minute). If you want to do that you’ll need a few yards of a different color of yarn.

Speaking of finishing, you’ll probably need a circular knitting needle and will definitely need a yarn needle and a pair of scissors to finish your scarf.

Circular Knitting Machine Scarf Pattern

Starting with your waste yarn, cast on to the machine (that’s done by alternating going in front of and behind each peg around the machine).

Crank a couple of rounds.

Leaving a long tail, start working with your main color yarn.

I like to hold on to all the yarn ends when I get to the beginning of the round for the first few round to keep those stitches even.

Crank until you’re about to run out of yarn.

If you have two balls of the same color you can make a solid color scarf, but I didn’t so I added in a new color. To do that, when you get to the beginning of the round, make sure all the stitches on the previous round have been formed with the old yarn, then put the new yarn on the machine, leaving a long tail.

After you crank a few rounds you can weave in the ends on the inside of the tube.

Continue to crank out rounds to your desired length or until you’re about to run out of yarn. Be sure to leave a long tail for finishing.

How to Finish a Knitting Machine Scarf

There are lots of different options for how to finish a scarf worked on a knitting machine, five of which I outlined in my post on finishing a knitting machine scarf. For a quick overview, you can:

• cinch up the ends and add a pompom (or not) to each end
• place stitches on a circular knitting needle and sew the stitches together
• three-needle bind off
• crochet bind off
• grafting

The choice is really up to you as to the look you are going for and the techniques you’re most comfortable with. But knowing a few different ways to finish a scarf is handy. I grafted the ends of mine.

You can also turn your scarf into a loop if you like. This also involves grafting but is a nice look that makes it easy to keep your scarf around your neck.