Bella Lana: Beautiful Yarn

I really love this scarf!  It’s fun to knit and comes out just like you hope it will.  I knit it in Pearl Malabrigo Worsted, just like Laura pictures in her pattern.  Pearl is a pale gray-beige so our photo looks almost black and white.  For those of you who have never knit with Malabrigo, it’s a wonderfully soft Merino from Uruguay.  It’s hand-dyed, so the colors have some variation.  The scarf is shaped with short rows.  I used two skeins, with quite a bit left over.  We carry both the pattern and yarn – it’s available in our Minneapolis store and in our webstore.

KB

Kay Panner knit this wonderful blanket out of Noro Kureyon from a pattern in Noro Family.  She modified the pattern – rather than seaming the squares she crocheted them together using black yarn for definition.  It took a while to knit, but Kay didn’t mind.  She says it was actually a very portable project (a square at a time) and the constant color changes were motivational.  Looks beautiful, doesn’t it?

This pretty scarf is knit using short row shaping.  If you lay it flat it forms a doughnut.  I used a combination of Sublime Kid Mohair Blend and Filatura di Crosa New Smoking (for glitter).  It required two balls of each, and is knit on size 13 needles.  It would also be beautiful in Kid Seta Kid Mohair.  One customer knit it up in dark blue Malabrigo Worsted, and that looked great too.  If you haven’t knit short rows, don’t be put off.  It’s actually a simple technique that is useful in many contexts, including creating a beautiful shoulder line in sweaters.  And believe me, by the time you’ve finished this scarf you’ll really know how to knit short rows.

The scarf is 5 inches wide and measures about 50 inches along the shorter edge.  The general technique is to cast on a multiple of three stitches, work the first short row 2/3 of the way across, the second 1/3 of the way, and then to knit back picking up the wraps.

KB