A Study in Red

Or a study in knit and purl stitch. Just before Christmas last year, some balls of Rowan Silk Wool Dk was turned into a Christmas-present for my mother: a simple scarf out of just knit and purl stitches. With a thin black edge, in a sewn tubular cast-off, just to add something a bit dramatic to the red.

I made a sort of "lock" that is often used on scarfs knitted to small children, where a knotted scarf can be to bulky around a small throat.

To me, red and black are my mother´s colours.

The Silk Wool was nice to knit with and it blocked very well. This project was totally ad-libbed; I started without no clear plan and it soon turned into a study in knit and purl. And that was all that was needed.