I hand-carded my own blend of hand-dyed merino, commercially dyed silk sliver and hand-plucked possum from the bottom of my driveway into rolags, then I spun my yarn.

This scarf measures approximately 180cm (71 inches) in length (measurement taken along eyelet edge) and 21cm (8 inches) at its widest point. It has three basic components: an eyelet edge, a bias ‘body’ and an eyelet/frill edge.

Tension is not critical when knitting this pattern, although you may want to consider a larger needle than you would normally use for your chosen yarn if you want to have a softer, more ‘drapey’ scarf
(I used 3.75mm needles. My tension is 22 stitches = 10cm/4 inches).

The amount of yarn you will need depends on the size you want your scarf to be. I wanted to use all my yarn, so I firstly marked my yarn halfway spot. Then I marked the row on the scarf when I was happy with the width and no longer needing to do the shaping increases. I continued with the body until I reached the yarn halfway mark, marked that spot on the scarf and knitted the second half of the scarf with the same body length as the first half before beginning the decrease shaping. I was left with only a small amount of yarn. You might want to be a little more cautious if you have a limited amount of yarn and mark the second half on the body slightly smaller to ensure you don’t run out of yarn.

If you have any difficulties with my pattern, please leave me a message so I can fix it.