Starbella Scarf

When I was in a yarn shop a couple of weeks ago, they had what they called 'self ruffling' yarn.  The owner showed my friend and me  how to cast on and knit with it, but she only had one skein that she was using for demos, none for sale, and she was having a hard time getting it in.  I found a similar yarn called Starbella this week when I was in Ben Franklin.  They had skeins and skeins of it in several colors.  I bought one skein to try.

Knitting with this yarn was painfully slow.  I watched you tube videos to understand the technique a little better.  I had a lot of problems with the tape twisting and spent about as much time untwisting and stretching out the tape as I did knitting.  One video showed a way to turn the work so that everything didn't get twisted, but by the time I discovered this, I was about 1/2 way through the scarf and wasn't going to rip out everything out.  I'm glad I tried this yarn, but I think their must be a better way than knitting to work with it.  Maybe crocheting or weaving would be more efficient.

Let me know if you have ever tried Starbella and if you have any tricks for working with it.