I have a special thing for leaf motifs in lace. They always enchant me, because they are often surprising in how life-like they are; and at the same time they showcase lace techniques, such as yarn over eyelets, slanting decreases, and knit-purl textures. So ever since I finished dyeing my very first batch of raw silk and started looking for a ...

I wanted to make a scarf that displays the tan-and-blue color variations in Blue Earth Dyeworks’s Zebra Blue Tussah Silk yarn. This is a DK / light worsted pure silk yarn, pretty warm because of the protein content of the silk, yet can be airy if knit up in a lacy pattern and blocked.