Yarn: Noro Silk Garden x 3 50g balls. Colour: 226
Source: Shipston Needlecraft
Pattern: Free from "Sheep in the City", available here.
Needles: 6mm circs
Vital Statistics: Length: 210cm; width: 11.5cm
Started: 1st Feb
Finished: 4th Feb
Notes: I used a regular cast off and found it made the end of the scarf splay out in a most unattractive fashion. So I unpicked the cast off and redid it. This time I did K1* K2tog, pass first stitch over. Repeat from * . Oh, I also cast off knitwise on the private ("wrong") side, as I find this gives a better match to the cable cast on.
Here we are in progress:
and here's a close-up of the stitch pattern, which looks almost woven, rather than knitted:
