School Picture Scarf by Rebecca Hatcher

School Picture Scarf

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Knitting
December 2006
DK (11 wpi) ?
16 stitches and 20 rows = 4 inches
US 7 - 4.5 mm
242 yards (221 m)
one size
English
This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

A couple of years ago a friend gave me a skein of handpainted cashmere yarn. Tiny but gorgeous. I petted it for months, trying to figure out how to stretch it into an entire Something.
After some trial and error, I combined it with a matching solid yarn, and feather-and-fanned my way through a scarf, alternating the handpaint and the solid. I knit the wrong side rows after the eyelets to make the handpaint stand out as ridges on the front.
For some reason, this scarf really impresses non-knitters (always a plus for gifts). It’s relaxing to knit, and it does indeed stretch little skeins of fabulous yarn into entire Somethings. And it seems to go more quickly than one-yarned feather and fan.