After picking up the Spring ’09 Interweave Knits, I was so excited to find a project for some yarn that has been sitting patiently in its Rubbermaid container just waiting for the perfect pattern.
Leave it to Eunny Jang to come up with a gorgeous slip-stitch scarf in cotton! Her pattern called for Tahki Cotton Classic, but I had the perfect substitute. Last year, I stocked up on Classic Elite Premiere when it was on sale at The Yarn Haven. I love this 50-50 pima cotton/tencel blend – soft and drapey and really nice to knit with.
The colors I purchased weren’t exactly *my* colors, but they are really pretty – and I love how they look together.
The purl rows add such a nice texture.
There are really long floats on the wrong side of the scarf.
It took a while to get the hang of getting them nice and even. I think they’ll make the back of the scarf look really pretty in its finished form.
This pattern is so much more fun than I’d thought it would be. Anything that begins with casting on 400 stitches using the knit on method leaves me skeptical, but this is quick and fun and the pattern is very easily memorized.
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