This gossamer-light but very warm scarf is the perfect project for someone new to lace knitting. It is knitted using two stands of yarn – a cobweb-weight pure wool and a lace-weight mohair. I have used Voilette from La Droguerie and Sublime Lace (extra fine merino wool) for the sample shawl, but any laceweight and fine mohair yarn would work

It is a loose knit and when blocking you can choose whether you want to block wide or block long (the latter will create a narrower scarf). This will determine how many repeats of the 168-row pattern you will want to do.

Because two strands of yarn are worked together, it is a relatively quick knit. Gauge doesn’t really matter - it’s a scarf - but after gentle blocking I achieved 6sts and 8 rows to the inch.

The name Snow and Ice came from the yarn - the Voilette has a lovely gold sparkly thread running through it which, when knitted up, made me think of snowflakes and ice sparkling in the sunshine. Coincidentally, I finished the sample shawl just as snow started falling outside for the first time this year.