This beautiful yarn was generously gifted to me as part of an ongoing adventure in designing for, and knitting with handspun yarn. The Targhee fibre was dyed by Greenwood Fiberworks in a beautiful turquoise colourway, then spun and plied by UUeweKathryn into a worsted weight gradient set of three colours. There was approximately half as much of the dark shade as there was of the light and medium shades, and, while I had considered stripes, I decided to colourblock my design, with the smaller amount of the darkest shade anchoring the centre of a scarf. There were thick and thin sections in the yarn, so I knew I wanted to use a textured stitch pattern, which would accent the texture of the yarn, and I decided on a simple 2-row stitch pattern, knit on the bias. If you don’t have handspun, you can, of course, use commercial yarn. Both the shaping and the stitch pattern used in this project would lend themselves to yarns of different weights and fibres, as well as other colour-blocking or striping sequences. I suggest you experiment (i.e., swatch) to find your ideal match between yarn and gauge.

This is an easy project. The techniques you will need to know, or learn, in order to complete this scarf are:

• cast on and bind off;
• knit and purl;
• kfb increase;
• ssk OR k2tog decrease.

“Oliphant beach is located in the South Bruce Peninsula. The area west of Shore Rd. is composed of extremely rare coastal fen wetlands, which provide habitat for migratory and nesting birds as well as amphibians and reptiles. Some of Ontario’s rarest species live here including those that have been designated Species at Risk.”
~ https://greatlakes.guide/beaches/oliphant