This is the lace rib scarf, aka the Cashmere Scarf from the Australian Creative Knitting issue 17. I used just 1 ball (plus a tiny bit) of Filatura Di Crosa Zara yarn, leftover from a previous project.
I finished it a couple of weeks ago, and had been gifted for a friend’s birthday since. Unfortunately, this is the only photo I managed to take before being gifted, so no modelled shot. When I just finished the scarf, it looked kind of short, but you’ve got to love blocking lace. After blocking, the scarf stretched to about 145cm (57 inches), which I’m happy with.
This is also a quick knit, and I love how the scarf is reversible. The pattern is the same each row, but somehow it didn’t get boring.
Btw, if you haven’t seen yet, the Knitty calendar contest winners have been announced. No I didn’t win, and I can see why, the photos of the winners really are amazing! I love them all, they’re very creative indeed!
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I really like the way you’ve styled the scarf for this photo – looks great! The Zara is so lush, I’m sure the scarf is very much appreciated by its recipient!
The scarf is so pretty and elegant. I have heard good things about the Zara yarn, although I have never seen it. Quite lovely, and a very nice gift! 😉
Beautiful scarf, it looks so soft and the color so elegant.
I love that scarf! I’be been staring at it, trying to figure out the pattern as I don’t have Australian Creative Knitting here 🙁
Maybe next year for the Knitty calendar you could try taking a photo outside, maybe somewhere that is uniquely Australian. By the way, your photo submission inspired me to knit up a pair of Fetching. I made them using Blue Sky Alpaca. What an easy knit – and they look great. I did not do the picot edge, though.
What a beautiful scarf!!
All your amazing work makes me wish I could knit. Only thing is I have such bad teenage memories of having to knit socks at school that I can’t bring myself to do it. 🙂
Love the colour of the scarf.
I love the chunky lace – so unexpected!
It came out really lovely Claudine!
Beautiful scarf Claudine – now if only we could incorporate that design into a sock pattern…
PS: Thanks for your suggestions. I loved all of them (and Amethyst has left u a reply in the comments). xx
and you should know it was very close…your photos were gorgeous. choosing was so hard!
Claudine, you’ve won the CAR!!! No, you didn’t – sorry, but you DID make the short-list! x
What a beautiful, delicate scarf. It looks so soft, too.
i have the 17 Issue and have been trying to knit that same scarf, but try as I might I can’t get the pattern to work. The instructions are to cast on 24, but everyway i count the pattern stitches(with repeats)i can’t make the pattern workover 24 stitiches. what am I diong wrong?
Lorraine, I know, the pattern as written in the magazine is wrong. So I had to work it out myself. See my blog entry here: http://knitboxing.ong.id.au/2006/09/20/new-project-time/ I’ve put my pattern correction at the end of that post.