Mount Desert Island Scarf by Jo Lager

Mount Desert Island Scarf

Knitting
September 2016
Light Fingering ?
16 stitches and 20 rows = 2 inches
in body (thorn pattern)
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
800 - 900 yards (732 - 823 m)
Standard
English
This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

This lovely scarf features the Thorn Pattern from Barbara Walker’s A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns. Knit with fingering weight yarn in two color ways in a tube using a circular needle, the scarf is thick and warm without being heavy and has no wrong side. Garter stitch trim at the ends provides a neat finish. The model is knit with two color ways of Louisa Harding’s Amitola, which has long and gradual color changes; this scarf would also be beautiful knit with two solid colors or a solid and a tonal or variegated yarn. It looks best when the two yarns have high contrast.

Materials
Needles US 2.5 (3mm) 16”/40cm circular
Notions Stitch markers (2 distinct markers: one for mid-point and one for end-of-round)
Yarn Louisa Harding Amitola
Color A: 2 balls of 113 Pot Pourri or 500y of fingering weight yarn
Color B: 2 balls of 125 Sleepy Hollow or 400y of fingering weight yarn
Gauge 16 st and 20 rows / 2”/5cm (Gauge is not critical for this project.)
Dimensions Finished and lightly blocked scarf is 6”/15cm x 75”/190cm