Chocolate Buttercream is a narrow scarf designed to highlight a special skein of yarn, worked in a simple lace and garter stitch pattern. It is knitted from one tip at a constant width and finished with decreases to form the second tip.

SIZE
One size
 

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Length: 80.25” / 204 cm.
 
Width: 4.75” / 12 cm.
 

MATERIALS
Yarn: 1 skein of 100% Cormo 4 ply by Lexington Woolies (100% Cormo wool, 399 yds / 365 m – 100g), in the colourway Haynes.

Or approx. 399 yds / 365 m of fingering-weight yarn.
 
Alternative yarn suggestions are for example Laine x Novita 4ply by Novita, Sunday Morning 4Ply by Sonder Yarn Co., La Bella Fingering by Great Ocean Road Woollen Mill or Sunday by Sandnes Garn.
 
Needles: US 5 / 3.75 mm 16” / 40 cm circular needles or straight needles.
 
Notions: 3 stitch markers (incl. 1 locking stitch marker).
 

GAUGE
21 sts x 38 rows to 4” / 10 cm on US 5 / 3.75 mm needles in Lace Patt, after blocking.
 

CONSTRUCTION
This scarf is worked from tip to full width, knit at full width for majority of pattern and then decreased at opposite tip. The shawl is framed with i-cord edging and features a lace pattern that is easily memorisable. After establishing the i-cord edging the lace pattern is introduced whilst increasing on both sides of the scarf to reach the full width. The repeating lace pattern is then knit before reaching the other end of the scarf. The lace pattern is then decreased to reach the final tip.