Modern Daily Knitting Field Guide No. 15: Open is the perfect way to open yourself up to the possibilities of lace!

This skinny little scarf is a portable workshop in knitting lace. It features the Big Four of lace knitting: knit, purl, decrease, yarnover.

The rows are short so that you can quickly tink back and try again if by chance something doesn’t look right.

Instructions are for two versions, one in light fingering weight yarn, and one in aran weight yarn.

Materials
Light Fingering Version:
— Helix by La Bien Aimée [100 g hanks, each approx 710 yds (650 m), 75% Falkland merino wool, 25% Gotland wool]: 1 hank Lise (A)
— Size US 8 (5 mm) needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
— Blocking pins
Aran Version:
— Merino Aran by La Bien Aimée
[100 g hanks, each approx 182 yds (166 m), 100% superwash merino wool]: 2 hanks Aimée’s Sweater (B)
— Size US 9 (5.5 mm) needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
— Blocking pins

Knitted Measurements
— 6.25 (6.75)“ wide × 72” long [16 (17) × 183 cm]

Gauge
— Light Fingering Version: 18.5 sts and 27 rows = 4” (10 cm) over Rib Lace, using smaller needles and A
— Aran Version: 17.5 sts and 24 rows =
4” (10 cm) over Rib Lace, using larger needles and B

Size
— One Size

Notes
— Instructions are given for Light Fingering Version first, with Aran Version in parentheses; when only one number is given, it applies to both versions.
— For Light Fingering Version, stitches are cast on and bound off using 2 strands of yarn held together in order to add extra weight to each end of scarf; the rest of the scarf is worked using 1 strand.
— You may work the Rib Lace from either from either the text or the chart.