Why SSSAT? Well, it’s a simple stocking stitch asymmetric triangle. It could be worked entirely in garter stitch, but then you’d have to pay attention to row numbers to remember where to put the decreases. By working in stocking stitch, all the fiddly stuff (increasing and decreasing) takes place on the knit side, so the purl side is your rest row.

The first half of the scarf is done just in stocking stitch. The lace rows that first define the wide stripes, and then repeat every right side row to make up the mesh portion of the sample, were added to break up the monotony of longer and longer rows. You can customize your SSSAT Scarf by starting the lace rows earlier, changing the stripe sequence, or even altering the type of decrease from the left leaning srk to a right leaning k2tog. It’s your scarf, have fun!

The sample scarf is quite small (68” by 14” after blocking and bouncing back), and took only two balls of Lang Nova, so less than 400 yards of a fingering to sport weight yarn. If you’d prefer a larger finished project (more shawlette than scarf), then double up when choosing your yarn (four balls of Lang Nova, or roughly 800 yards of fingering to sport weight yarn).

Do keep in mind that stocking stitch naturally wants to curl and roll. This can be reduced a little during wet blocking, but the finished scarf will still tend to curl. If you embrace the curl it can help to shape the scarf and make it easier to style. Both the style and the placement of increases and decreases was planned to encourage the curl in a specific direction.

Materials:

2 balls of Lang Nova (25g each, 197 yds / 180 m per ball, fibre content is 48% merino wool, 32% baby camel, and 20% nylon, the structure is fluffy curls of merino and baby camel caught and held by a plied nylon binder, very stretchy and unusual, wonderful to knit with)

5.0 mm circular needle at least 80 cm / 24” long (longer if making shawlette version)

wool needle and scissors for finishing ends