I just moved to southern Oregon 2 years ago, and I love it here, but there are a few things I miss about my hometown of Phoenix Arizona. The main thing I long for is a view of another beautiful Arizona sunset. There’s something about the purples, pinks, oranges and blues melding into each other that makes me feel at home. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to wrap that warmth and beauty around your neck and shoulders and take it with you into the damp and cold of winter? This was my inspiration for the Arizona Sunset Infinity Scarf.

This infinity scarf is worked in the round and is essentially just a large tube of stockinette with a k2p2 rib at the beginning and end of the pattern. What makes it unique is the color work. To create a blended look, you will be working 13 stripes starting with a beautiful solid light orange color that reminds me of the Arizona sun. You will then mix the light orange with a darker orange, create a stripe of solid dark orange, mix that with a pink, work a stripe of solid pink, and so on… Until you have reached the darkest solid stripe of deep purple to represent the night sky.

Yarn Note:
Important! Yarn is held double throughout. This scarf only requires the yardage in one ball of each color, but you will sometimes need to use two strands of the same color simultaneously. If you have a ball winder at home, you can easily create two balls out of each color. After winding all of my balls I found that approximately 125 cranks of the ball winder will create two evenly sized balls. If you want to test yours out, just wind one ball & count how many cranks it takes, then divide that by two. I suggest putting your yarn into baggies to keep everything neat and untangled as you work.
If you do not have access to a ball winder, you can buy two balls of each color, but you will have enough yarn to easily make three scarves. Perhaps you and a friend may want to share, or you may want to make some as gifts. These scarves work up quickly and are quite easy once you get the hang of the color changes.