Poet scarf by Sari Nordlund

Poet scarf

Knitting
June 2024
yarn held together
Lace
+ Fingering
= DK (11 wpi) ?
23 stitches and 30 rows = 4 inches
in lace pattern, after blocking
US 4 - 3.5 mm
246 yards (225 m)
One size, Total length: 100 cm / 40 inches, Total width: 30 cm/ 11.75 inches
English
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The Poet scarf has the same wavy lace pattern, familiar from my other Poet designs.

The Poet scarf is a little triangular kerchief that can be worn in multiple ways. It is started at the tip of the scarf, then increased on every right side row until the full width before decreasing your way back to the other tip. The size can easily be modified by adding more pattern repeats for a larger shawl.

The Poet scarf was designed for those odd balls and leftover skeins of fingering weight yarn and mohair we all have in our stashes, but the scarf can also be worked in a single strand of DK weight yarn.

Size
One size
Total length: 100 cm / 40 inches
Total width: 30 cm/ 11.75 inches

Yarn
Note: The shawl uses a strand of fingering weight yarn held together with a strand of lace weight yarn, but they can be substituted for a single strand of DK weight yarn. If you wish to work a DK weight version, omit all the instructions where it says “hold the yarns together” and follow only the yarn amount requirements for the fingering weight yarn.

225 m / 246 yards of fingering weight yarn and 225 m / 246 yards of lace weight yarn.

Blue sample: 1 ball of Knitting For Olive Pure Silk (100 % silk; 250 m / 273 yards per 50 g), shown in colorway Poppy blue and 1 ball of Knitting for Olive Soft Silk Mohair (70% mohair, 30% silk; 225 m / 246 yards per 25 g), shown in colorway Poppy blue.

Yellow sample: 1 ball of Kaos Yarn Organic Soft Merino (100% merino; 250 meters / 273 yards per 50 g) shown in the colorway Optimistic and 1 ball of Kaos Yarn Organic Brushed Alpaca (100% organic alpaca; 225 m / 246 yards per 25 g), shown in colorway Optimistic.

Needles
3.5 mm / US 4 circular needles with a cable of at least 60 cm / 24 inches
Always use the needle size that gets you the right gauge.

Gauge
23 sts and 30 rounds = 10 cm / 4 inches of lace pattern, after blocking

Notions
3 stitch markers
tapestry needle
blocking tools