This neck warmer gives you every option for keeping cozy while making a style statement. Wear it all different ways: lining tucked in, slouched around, or even pulled up to your nose when necessary. Inside out or folded down are great looks too. Fault Lines is the accessory that can adapt to wherever the mood, activity or weather takes you.

Choose one of two colorwork patterns for the main body, combining two sport weight colors for either dramatic or subtle effects. Add extra interest with a fingering weight stockinette fabric lining that’s knit from picked up stitches inside the top edge. These colorwork patterns look like seismic waves to me, so I named Fault Lines for the places where the earth’s plates slip and collide, resulting in mountain ranges, undersea landscapes and all kinds of geographical rifts.

Fault Lines would be perfect for a yarn shop class or a beginner to stranded colorwork. Both charted patterns are easy level, with only two stitches per color that alternate in a round, making for rhythmic knitting and short floats.
Other techniques used are circular knitting, basic decreases and picking up stitches. The smaller needle is used for ribbings and the lining, and the larger needle is used for the color work.

Yardage used: Approximately 200 yards sport weight color A and 125 yards sport weight color B for colorwork body; and 150 yards fingering weight for lining

Special thanks to Three Irish Girls for yarn support and to my test knitters for their fine work.
The two colorwork patterns included in this design are from the book AlterKnits Stitch Dictionary, by Andrea Rangel. You can use that book as a companion to this design and use many other motifs for the colorwork. So many possibilities!