This is a comfortable, wearable scarf that’s knit from side to side, using only simple stitches to form an unusual design of slanted panels. The knitting seems to go quickly, and boredom is held at bay because none of rows is perishingly long and the stitch patterns are different from panel to panel. There is definitely no feeling of acres and acres of the same thing! Despite that, though, each section is simple enough for social knitting: you know - knit a little, chat, knit, eat a bite, knit some more… While it is not completely reversible, the wrong side doesn’t look “wrong,” so you don’t have to worry if the breeze blows it inside out. The pattern as I have done it used about 510 yards; it is written, not charted, and is completely suitable for a beginning knitter.