Knitting In Mind

Misti Alpaca Worsted + Barbara Walker “ Arch and Leaf”

December 13, 2008 at 2:32 pm Leave a comment

By Special Request: “a texture patterned, soft, cream-colored scarf”

Misti Alpaca Worsted
colorway SFN 10, 2X 100g hanks
dimensions: 52” x 8.25

“Arch and Leaf” stitch from Barbara Walker Fourth Treasury

Not the best scarf stitch pattern, it curls (wrong side out) pretty insistently even after a good blocking.
If I did it over, I would knit it two arches wide (instead of three) and use a wider flat border such as K1P1, or seed stitch.

ERRATA for “Arch and Leaf” from  Barbara Walker Fourth Treasury:
row 5:  stitch 36 (counting from left edge of chart)
should be [RS: P1/WS: K1]
row 5:  stitches 19 and 33 (counting from the left edge of chart)
and
row 7:  stitches 18 and 36 (counting from the left edge of chart)
should be [RS: K1-b/WS: P1-b]
(These are the stitches above the YO and will create holes if not closed with a twisted stitch, see swatch below)

DD requested this scarf, we picked up the yarn at Beehive WoolShop in Victoria, B.C. last summer.

She wanted a textured pattern, so I handed her a pile of Barbara Walker Treasuries to choose from.

Never having been one to shy away from a swatch, I swatched up her favorites to choose from.

 
Details from top to bottom

Soft Cable (right), Barbara Walker Third Treasury

Ribbed Spindle, Barbara Walker Third Treasury

Exploded Ribbing, Barbara Walker Fourth Treasury

Arch and Leaf, Barbara Walker Fourth Treasury

(my favorite) Cable-Framed Leaf, Barbara Walker Second Treasury

DD loves the scarf , mostly the softness.

Entry filed under: Finished!. Tags: alpaca, Canada, Misti Alpaca, scarf.