This scarf was created in collaboration with A Verb For Keeping Warm for their Winter Solstice Knitting Experience. You can buy a yarn kit for the original colourways Light and Dark.

The Shifting Moods Scarf is a small triangular scarf knitted in stockinette stitch using a combination of the intarsia technique and marling to create botanical abstract motifs.

These motifs are inspired by long walks along the coast and the shifting moods of the sea: Calm and restless, soft and rough, moody and radiant – all blending seamlessly into one another.

The triangular scarf is knitted from one corner to the other, first increasing and then decreasing along the left edge on every other right side row. An I-cord edge is worked along both sides of your knitting for neat edges.

This scarf was created in collaboration with A Verb For Keeping Warm for their Winter Solstice Knitting Experience.

Finished measurements of the samples:
Length: 134 cm / 52.75 inches.
Width: 28 cm / 11 inches.

Yarn: One strand of DK weight base yarn held together with two strands of a contrasting lightweight mohair or alpaca blend yarn. Choose a base yarn that is not too smooth, but with a slightly textured surface, so that the CC yarns blend in well.

MC: 220m / 241yds
CC1: 80m / 88yds
CC2: 113m / 124yds
CC3: 76m / 83yds

Note: The CC yarns will be knitted together using 2 strands, mixed differently, to create a gradient of 6 different shades.

Yarn used in the sample:
MC: Bread & Butter Pretzel (100% U.S. Merino Wool, 118m / 130yds per 50g)
CC: A Verb For Keeping Warm Frond (72% Kid Mohair, 28% Silk, 420m / 459yds per 50g), held double.

Light colourway
MC: Jade Cove
CC1: Lucky Penny
CC2: Succulent
CC3: Poppy

Dark colourway
MC: Porcini
CC1: Succulent
CC2: Mist
CC3: Mesa

Needles: 5mm / US 8 circular needles. Always use the needle size that results in the correct gauge measured after blocking.

Gauge: 16 sts x 25 rows to 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4 inches in stockinette stitch using 5mm / US 8 needles and MC held together with two strands of CC, measured after washing and blocking.