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Leo’s Roadtrip Cashmere Scarf
Designer: Linda Fox
photo ©2008 Gale Zucker/www.gzucker.com
Skill Level
Easy
Finished measurements
7” x54”
Materials
150 yards MC (1 ¼ oz Goat Knoll 3 ply cashmere)
150 yards CC (1 ¼ oz Goat Knoll 3 ply cashmere)
(300 yards total of 3 ply Goat Knoll cashmere or a yarn that will get a similar
gauge)
In the photograph, red is the main color(MC) and brown is the contrasting color
(CC).
Knitting needles - US size 6
Gauge
6 stitches and 7 rows = 1” (2.5 cm)
Leo’s Scarf
Using CC, loosely cast on 41 stitches.
Rows 1 - 5: Purl.
Attach MC yarn, but also leave CC yarn attached. You will have the yarn you’re
not knitting with yarn carried up throughout the project, only one is knit at a
time.
Row 6: Using MC, purl 3, knit 35, purl 3.
Row 7: Purl across row.
Row 8: Using CC, purl 3, knit 35, purl 3.
Row 9: Purl across row.
Rows 10 – 19: Repeat Rows 6 – 9 until you have 4 MC stripes and 3 CC color
stripes. You will end with a MC stripe.
Rows 20 – 23: Purl 3, K1, P1, K1, P1…..to within 3 stitches of end. Then purl 3.
Repeat Rows 6 – 23 19 more times.
Last 5 Rows: Using CC, purl.
Bind off loosely.
Iron flat using a damp towel between the scarf and the iron.
This pattern is not for sale or commercial distribution.
If you have questions about use of this pattern, please contact gale @ gzucker.com
For more patterns from fiber farms around the United States, see Shear Spirit: Ten Fiber
Farms, Twenty Patterns and Miles of Yarn by Joan Tapper & Gale Zucker