A fun, colourful knit for lovers of stationery and art supplies or for people who appreciate a good rainbow gradient in their knits! This scarf is knitted back and forth using straightforward knit and purl stitches with intarsia technique colour changes.

This is more of a ‘recipe’ for a scarf than an exact pattern written line by line, as the chart provided allows you to change the lengths of each pencil and colour order as you go along. I have varied the lengths of each pencil by a small number of stitches to mirror my own artists materials (photo below left), but an adventurous or experienced chart reader can make each pencil shorter or longer by starting each pencil a few stitches further towards the left or the right of the chart.

This scarf uses two sets of 8 x 10g mini skeins, ‘Peacock’ and ‘Firebird’ for the colours of the pencils, plus one 100g skein of light brown speckled ‘Cappuccino’ colourway and one 100g skein of dark grey semi-solid ‘Anthracite’ colourway, all of which are hand dyed by Folkes