Our Value Study Scarf is like a record of the ways sunlight and breeze skim the landscape, gentle shifts across a meadow or the sea, a beach or the desert.

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The effect is created every 14 inches when the un-dyed shades of Sweetgrass move from light to dark against a single-color backdrop of Linen Quill. The two yarns alternate in simple one-row stripes: Sweetgrass’s tidy spin of organic cotton and superfine alpaca meets the windswept, bright beauty of Linen Quill.

Value Study Scarf | Purl Soho

All in garter stitch, each row of alternating color interlocks with the one above and below it, creating a fabric that almost looks more woven than knit.

Value Study Scarf | Purl Soho

To get started on yours, choose your favorite Linen Quill color, like this pretty Eggshell Blue, and add one skein each of our five Sweetgrass colors. Whatever the color, dive in, gaze across, and admire this lovely scarf’s understated manner of persuasion… A real natural!

Value Study Scarf | Purl Soho

Designed by Purl Soho designer, Jake Canton. Click here to see even more of Jake’s designs!

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Materials

Value Study Scarf | Purl Soho

Our Value Study Scarf Bundle includes the yarn you need to make the Wide version of this scarf…

  • Yarn A: 2 skeins of Purl Soho’s Linen Quill, 50% fine highland wool, 35% alpaca and 15% linen. Each skein is 439 yards; approximately 643 total yards required. We used Eggshell Blue.
  • Yarns B-F: 5 skeins of Purl Soho’s Sweetgrass, 65% organic cotton and 35% superfine alpaca. Each skein is 437 yards; approximately 146 total yards required. The colors of Yarns B-F are…
    • Yarn B: 1 skein of Heirloom White
    • Yarn C: 1 skein of Pale Sesame
    • Yarn D: 1 skein of Buckwheat Beige
    • Yarn E: 1 skein of Rye Flour
    • Yarn F: 1 skein of Walnut Shell

NOTE: For the Narrow version, pick up one skein of Linen Quill, plus the five colors of Sweetgrass listed above.

You will also need…

NOTE: Although you’ll knit this scarf flat, you’ll need to be able to knit stitches from both ends of the needles, which is why circular needles are required.

Gauge

24 stitches and 52 rows = 4 inches in garter stitch

Sizes

Narrow (Wide)

Finished Dimensions: 9 (15) inches wide x 70 inches long

Notes

Slip Stitches

Slip all slipped stitches purlwise.

Turn + Slide

When you work the Two-Color Garter Stitch Pattern, you either “slide” or “turn” the work at the end of each row.

“Turn work” means to do what you would normally do when knitting rows with circular needles: Transfer the needle from your left hand into your right hand and the needle from your right hand into your left, flipping the work around so the opposite side is facing you.

“Slide work” means to keep the same side of the work facing you and to push all the stitches to the right end of the circular needles. Without turning the work, start the new row as you normally would.

You will know that you’re doing this right if the yarn you need to complete the next row is right there waiting for you!

Two-Color Garter Stitch Pattern

Row 1 (wrong side): Slip 1 with Yarn A and B in front; with Yarn A, knit to last stitch, slip 1 with yarn in front. Slide Work (see Turn + Slide, above).

Row 2 (wrong side): With Yarn B, purl to end of row. Turn work (see above).

Row 3 (right side): Slip 1 with Yarn A and B in back; with Yarn A, purl to last stitch, slip 1 with yarn in back. Slide work.

Row 4 (right side): With Yarn B, knit to end of row. Turn work.

NOTE: When working Rows 1 and 3, Yarn A wraps around the selvage edge.

Pattern

With Yarn B, cast on 54 (90) stitches.

Join Yarn A and with Yarns A and B, repeat Rows 1-4 of Two-Color Garter Stitch Pattern (see Notes) until piece measures 14 inches from cast-on edge, ending with Row 4.

Cut Yarn B.

Join Yarn C and with Yarns A and C, repeat Rows 1-4 of Two-Color Garter Stitch Pattern for 14 inches, ending with Row 4.

Cut Yarn C.

Join Yarn D and with Yarns A and D, repeat Rows 1-4 of Two-Color Garter Stitch Pattern for 14 inches, ending with Row 4.

Cut Yarn D.

Join Yarn E and with Yarns A and E, repeat Rows 1-4 of Two-Color Garter Stitch Pattern for 14 inches, ending with Row 4.

Cut Yarn E.

Join Yarn F and with Yarns A and F, repeat Rows 1-4 of Two-Color Garter Stitch Pattern for 14 inches, ending with Row 4.

Cut Yarn A.

With Yarn F and right side facing you, loosely bind off knitwise.

Weave in ends and block as desired.

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