One of the things I really crave in my knitting is variety. I know I knit a lot of lace – and there is truly an endless variety of stitch-combinations to be found in lace – but there are a lot of other styles that I really like as well. My very first published pattern was the Burridge Aran Afghan, with lots of cables.
I just released a new cabled pattern – the Charles River Scarf – which uses reversible cables. The cables form a wave pattern reminiscent of the flowing water in the river that separates Boston from Cambridge. I made up a new way of creating reversible cables (at least it was new to me, but I guess nothing is truly new under the sun), and I was rather pleased with how it worked out.
The design goal was a unisex scarf with lots of texture. The contrast between the ribbing and the garter stitch on the edging makes it look squishy soft. And the reversible cables look the same on both sides of the scarf.
Width: 10 in/25 cm
Length: adjustable. As shown: 75 in/200 cm, using 600 yds/300 g of worsted weight yarn
The pattern is available in PDF format for CDN $4.00
