I love the architectural and art deco-like effect of this cable pattern, which I discovered in one of Barbara Walker’s collections of knitting stitch patterns. This cable pattern was designed to be knit bottom-up, so normally a scarf with the pattern at both ends would be knit in two pieces and grafted together in the middle. I wanted to reverse the charted pattern, so it could be knit bottom-up at one end and top-down at the other, eliminating the need for grafting and simplifying construction and finishing.

The pattern is fully charted, except for the three stitches at the beginning and end of each row. To echo the ridges in the scarf body, the edges are worked as a 3-stitch i-cord: slip the last 3 stitches with yarn in front, turn, knit the first 3 stitches.