Sorry, non-knitter friends! Don't read this post.

Warning: the following is as quick and dirty as a night with Paris Hilton.

I found my Branching Out chart, which I thought I had deleted!

Note: this is a modification of the Knitty pattern. I didn't design Branching Out. However, all the bits below are mine.

Click here for chart

What I did went something like this:
CO 9 with provisional cast-on. On the first row, slip 1 purlwise, then k to the end. Then knit border chart 5 times. (61 + 1 rows)

TURN CORNER 1: Use short rows. I can't remember exactly what I did, but it involved a lot of fudging. Try to end up with 9 sts on the needle, but if you don't, don't worry about it.

After you turn corner, place marker. Look at the straight edge. You have one slipped st for every two rows, ie 30. Put the front loop of the first slipped stitch onto the left needle, then knit into it tbl. Pick up and knit the remaining 29 sts this way.

Place marker. Pick up 9 sts along the cast-on edge, removing waste yarn from the provisional CO.

TURN CORNER 2: Fudge this. Do whatever you like, as long as it's roughly the mirror image of what you did for TURN CORNER 1. Try to end up with 9 sts for the border section (or whatever number you got at the end of TURN CORNER 1). When you're done, your yarn should be at the end of the row, not in the middle of the scarf.

MAIN SCARF PART:
Now you should have something like 9 sts for each border, and 30 sts between the markers. This is where it can get a bit confusing, if it isn't already. If you don't have row counters, you will cry.

One of the borders will begin with border row 12, and the other will begin with border row 1. One side will always be one row in front of the other. If you have a border amount other than 9 sts, find the two rows on the chart that have the numbers you need, and begin on those.

Note: omit the "sl 1 pwise wyif" at the beginning of odd border rows.

Row 1:Work border row 12, slip marker, knit row 1 from the Branching Out chart, slip marker, work border row 1.

Row 2:Work border row 2, slip marker, knit row 2 from the Branching Out chart, slip marker, work border row 1.

Row 3:Work border row 2, sm, knit row 3 from the BO chart, sm, then work border row 3.

And so on.

If you are lucky, when your scarf is about long enough, you'll hit a magic row with the border on rows 1 and 12 and BO on row 10. If not, you have to do more fudging. Sorry. If you can't find this magic row, you can cheat a little by doing a couple of stocking st rows instead of the BO chart.

Work the magic row. Turn corner as appropriate, working on just the border sts.

Now. You're going to be attaching the top border. To do this:
When you work even numbered border rows, knit to the last border st, sl 1, remove marker, slip st back and k2tog. Turn, place marker, knit odd numbered border row WITH slipped stitch at beginning.

(Basically, you're knitting the last border st together with a Branching Out stitch. You don't need the marker anymore if you know what's going on.)

Keep going until you've eaten up all the Branching Out stitches and all you have left is 9 border stitches on each needle. Turn corner and graft together.

~the end