I love browsing through my stitch dictionaries and this pattern - Fern Lace - came out of my trusted (and now rather weathered) Ward Lock Guide to Knitting Stitches, which I bought back in 1984. Then, as I was browsing through my Barbara G Walker stitch dictionary I saw the same design, but this time it was called Vine Lace. Confused? Moi?

This pretty lace pattern is probably the easiest lace pattern ever to memorise – the same sequence of stitches is worked on every odd row, just moved by one stitch every time it is worked. Even rows are worked purl. It is a 9-stitch pattern repeat and the scarf has a garter stitch border.

The red sample scarf is composed of 7 nine-stitch repeats, plus 3 stitches at each edge to create the garter border. 69 stitches were cast on (ie 7x9 = 63 plus 2 x 3 = 6.) The width of the scarf can be adjusted by reducing or increasing the number of 9-stitch repeats that are worked.