This scarf, mostly employs combinations of knits and purls to give texture, but it also includes a simple yet effective cable running along the centre to add a bit of interest and to spice things up for the new knitter.

Why Ski Lift? The chequerboard design of knits and purls reminds me of the construction of an Alpine log cabin, and the sinuous cable running down the middle puts me in mind of a cable-car ski lift, cutting through the mountains as it transports its skiers to the top, ready to start their exhilarating descent.

The best feature of this design, however, is the fact that it is 100% reversible.

I have designed it so that the eight stitches that make up the cable are worked in 1x1 rib.This kind of rib looks the same on both sides, but more than that, the act of cabling bunches the stitches up together so that you really can’t see the purl ditches between the columns of knit stitches at all.

The squares of the basket-weave patterning are completely regular, and the whole design is framed by a moss-stitch border allowing the scarf to lie nice and flat.

Every single element has been chosen with total reversibility in mind, making this a very wearable scarf, as well as an attractive one.

You will need three skeins if the specified yarn. My finished scarf used 277g of the Elmet Aran yarn from Triskelion Yarns.