A while back, I made a bias-striped Noro scarf using one skein each of two colorways of Kureyon. I had originally purchased a skein of oranges and pinks to go with the skein of blues and purples, so when I decided that the combination was way too garish I had this extra skein of oranges and pinks. I figured I’d find a coordinating skein and make a scarf for someone else, since I’m not that into orange myself.

Some months later, I found a skein of greens and browns and blues that I thought might mesh with the oranges for an autumnal effect, so I bought it. The second skein had a bit of pink in it, but I figured I could rig things so the two pinks didn’t line up. These two skeins of Kureyon were sitting in my stash, waiting, for about a year. I think I held off because I was afraid that they would also look awful together.

Then I knit my Noro Crystal Cove Pullover, and I had two skeins of the brown Retro left over. This gave me four skeins of Noro, two of Kureyon and two of Retro, which was enough for a ribbed Noro striped scarf in the Brooklyn Tweed fashion.

Since my two skeins of Kureyon had a common shade of pink, I knit with the Retro and the green skein of Kureyon until I hit that pink, then I spliced the Kureyon into the matching pink in the middle of the orange skein and knit to the end, spliced the inner and outer ends of the orange skein together (after removing a bit of one end so the color matched), knit until the orange Kureyon skein was done and I was back at the pink, and then spliced on the end of the green skein. I like that the scarf begins and ends with brown and teal, and that the colors are asymmetrical in between.

I have a friend and colleague in the art department at St. Mary’s College with whom I often discuss art and math and other common points of interest. She teaches classes on color theory, and this scarf seemed like the perfect fit for her. She’s very happy with it, and it looks fantastic on her.