Difficulty: Intermediate

A slight misunderstanding at Knitting Camp led to the name of this scarf when a fellow camper confused my saying “eyelet swirls” with “eyelet squirrels.” I preferred the misunderstanding and stuck with it.

One of the things that intrigues me about different stitch patterns is how they can contort and create interesting bias effects. Here, without any shaping or special technique, the “biasing” tendencies of the ribbed and eyelet patterns each create their own undulating selvedge effect and naturally help create a decorative edge.

There are two different types of yarn weights used in this pattern. The Camel Hair yarn is heavy worsted to bulky yarn and the Sincere Sheep yarn is fingering weight. The play between these two weights is one of the design features of this pattern and the differences in scale made by different weights of yarn aid in the undulating selvedge effect. When substituting yarns be sure to preserve a difference in yarn weight.

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ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Jack Johnson is an architect living in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.