Try your hand at this cabled scarf for a cozy accessory to wear all season. This textured scarf features garter cable and slipped stitches. The cable and rib pattern can be worked from the text or chart.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Size: 7” [18 cm] wide and 67½” [171.5 cm] long, lightly blocked.
Gauge: One 34 st-Cable Rep = 7” [18 cm] wide and 3¼” [8 cm] high, lightly blocked.
Materials
Yarn:
Knit Picks Preciosa Tonal (100% Merino Wool; 273 yards [249 meters]/100 grams): boysenberry, 2 hanks.
Needle: US size 9 (5.5 mm): straight or circular needles. Adjust needle size if needed to obtain stitch and row gauge.
Notions: Cable needle; markers; tapestry needle
Abbreviations
cn cable needle
3/3 RC slip 3 stitches to cn, hold in back; k3, k3 from cn
k below slip right needle under strand, k1, pass strand over stitch
wyif with yarn in front
Pattern Notes
Scarf is worked in the back and forth from the bottom up.
Slip sts purlwise.
Chart is worked flat with the odd (RS) rows are read right to left and the even (WS) rows, left to right.
Cable Pattern (34 sts over 24 rows)
Row 1 (RS): Sl 1 st wyif, k3, (sl 1 st wyif) 5 times, k3, p2, k6, p2, k3, (sl 1 st wyif) 5 times, k4.
Row 2 (WS): Sl 1 st wyif, k3, p5, k5, p3, k8, p5, k4.
Row 3: Sl 1 st wyif, k5, k below, k5, p2, 3/3 RC, p2, k5, k below, k6.
Row 4: Sl 1 st wyif, k3, p5, k8, p3, k5, p5, k4.
Row 5: Rep Row 1.
Row 6: Rep Row 4.
Row 7: Sl 1 st wyif, k5, k below, k5, p2, k6, p2, k5, k below, k6.
Rows 8-11: Rep Rows 4-7.
Row 12: Rep Row 4.
Row 13: Rep Row 1.
Row 14: Rep Row 4.
Row 15: Rep Row 3.
Row 16: Rep Row 2.
Row 17: Rep Row 1.
Row 18: Rep Row 2.
Row 19: Rep Row 7.
Rows 20-23: Rep Rows 16-19.
Row 24: Rep Row 2.
Rep Rows 1-24 for pattern.
Rib Pattern (34 sts over 2 rows)
Row 1 (RS): Sl, k3, p2, k1, p2, k3, (p2, k2) twice, p2, k3, p2, k1, p2, k4.
Row 2 (WS): Sl wyif, k5, p1, k7, p2, k2, p2, k7, p1, k6.
Pattern
CO 34 sts.
Edging
Work Rows 1-2 of Rib Pattern 3 times.
Body
Work Rows 1-24 of Cable Pattern 20 times.
Work Rows 1-4 once more.
Edging
Work Rows 1-2 of Rib Pattern 3 times.
Fasten off loosely in pattern.
Finishing
Lightly block to measurements. Weave in ends.
Knitting every day keeps snacking away!!
Knitting every day keeps depression and being lonely away. I also crochet and enjoy both knitting and crocheting. I also have something lovely when I am finished. I am currently knitting a sweater and will have the pleasure of wearing it once it is finished.
It keeps the frenetic mind clutter away.
Arthritis.
is that 34 sts for cable and 34 sts for rib pattern if not how do you divide it up if both require 34 sts
I would say for me- – – -all of the above plus loneliness. I am lost in time when I am knitting or crocheting. So the time and emptiness of my home is not noticeable. Thank you for the great patterns.
Love and Light, ‘C’
Keep my mine busy and very relaxing.
Knitting every day keeps me happy and productive. So, I guess it keeps the unhappiness and boredom away!-)
stress
Stress Knitting calms me
The chips
the chores
the blues away…
I’m actually not really sure – it just is a fun and relaxing thing to do when I have extra time on my hands.
Pain away – keeps my muscles moving
Boredom. especially when waiting. Also anger at unnecessary waiting.
Exactly! No one can waste my time if I can knit.
anxiety
Knitting keep the doldrums away!
I’d say stiff hands, inactivity, mental sleepiness, even cold if I work on a big enough project. This scarf is wonderful. Thank you.
It keeps racing thoughts, anxiety and depression away.
depression and self-doubt.
reaching for snacks away, lol
keeps the boredom away, that is if I could knit very well, instead I can say that for crochet, since I can do that very well.
Stress
tension and anxiety
It keeps Stress away. Thanks for fixing this for us!
craziness
Thanks for opening this up to non-subscribers. For me Knitting fills the need to create, so I guess it keeps away uncreativity?
Therapy
Xanax
the crazies of life.