Knitted Irish Hiking Scarf

Renee's Scarfola detail

I was looking on Ravelry.com (http://www.ravelry.com) for a quick scarf pattern and found this one.  As an intermediate beginner, I wasn’t sure how complicated the cable stitch would be.  However, always the optimist, my co-worker, friend and knitting mentor Julie Alvar came to the rescue and showed me how.  In a New York second, I was on my way!  Julie also suggested that I purchase a row counter – which I did and turns out that it is the best thing since sliced bread.

I purchased the yarn at Common Threads in Encinitas (http://www.fiberartshop.com).  It was my first time there and I was absolutely overwhelmed with the inventory to say-the-least.  At any rate, I settled on this berry flavored multi-colored Berroco Pure Merino Heather Color #8616 which looks like tweed, but turns out to be as soft as new newborn baby’s skin.  It is such a compliment to the pattern without being too busy for the cable stitch pattern.

I am knitting this scarf for my nephew’s wife Renee.  They live in Salt Lake City and so, it should keep her nice and warm this coming winter.  Hopefully she will like it!

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3 Responses to “Knitted Irish Hiking Scarf”

  1. Linda Long
    November 5th, 2009 at 1:19 am

    Hi, I was just admiring your scarf and I would like to know if you know the color # or color name for this yarn. I telephoned Nancy at Common Threads but she said that Berroco has about 70 colors of this yarn. Can you please help me? Thank you Linda
  2. k2
    November 5th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Hi Linda and thanks for stopping by my blog! The specific name of the yarn is Berroco Pure Merino Heather and the color is 8616. It comes in 92 yard skeins. I will scan the label and send it to you…..
  3. Julie
    August 3rd, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    Hi – you seem to have typo’d ravelry in both the reference and the link!
    That scarf’s a reversible cable pattern, right? I think it’s the same one I knit out of baby alpaca, see my ravelry FOs page :) –meowmom
    I came here looking for a two-color pattern (hint: it’s blue and gold) but since I didn’t find it I will have to make up my own :) Best of luck to you…

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