This is the scarf that my hero Michael gives to the heroine Phoebe in my book, Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 5: Prisoner.

The stitch pattern is from “#31 Comfort either for a Lady or Gentleman” in The Lady’s Assistant, volume 2, published in 1842 by Mrs. Jane Gaugain, pages 125-126, but Michael’s scarf is knitted on the diagonal rather than straight like in the original pattern.

The pattern is a pretty eyelet pattern that looks like branches or vines winding upward, but it also has a changeable orientation, looking vertical or diagonal depending on how you look at it.

My pattern uses a smaller needle and I added a slip stitch in the pattern to make the eyelets a bit more close and less lacy. When paired with a brown and gray cashmere yarn, it creates a scarf both warm and with an interesting pseudo-broken-ribbing pattern.

1 skein of yarn made a 4.5 foot scarf (after blocking), but I had a second skein so I kept knitting until it was over 5 feet. But if you want to only use one skein of yarn, you can make the scarf a little narrower and it will end up a full 5 feet long.