Materials: 4 skeins Knit Picks City Tweed HW (55% Merino wool, 25% superfine alpaca, 20% Donegal tweed) in Toad. Size 9 needles. Pattern: Palindrome Reversible Cable Scarf.

Time: Several months, mostly dormant.

Cost: $32 USD.

This scarf originally began as an Aran Honeycomb Cable scarf for Pete, which failed miserably. For whatever reason — gauge? tension? — the cables just didn’t pop, and got lost in the (otherwise lovely) yarn. I went up a needle size and changed to the Palindrome pattern, and the results were dramatically different: the cables were nice, fat, and well-defined, and the fabric positively cushy. I also like the reversibility; not that this would necessarily be a problem for my husband, but I know that I tend to fidget with one-sided scarves to make sure they’re facing the right way out.

The only changes that I made were to work a few extra rows before the first and last cable crosses, and to add an extra 12 stitches to make an extra cable. As you might expect given the pattern and extra width, this version positively eats yarn, but since I ordered an extra skein it turned out a-ok.

When the scarf is all rolled up like in the top photo, I just want to give it a big hug. It’s also kitty-tested, husband-approved.

(This is Pete doing what he refers to as “The Obama.”)

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