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Buried deep in my stash bins were six balls of Gedifra Samina in a gunmetal gray. A blend of wool and nylon, it has a wonderful sheen that turns it silvery in some lights and gives it life.

I bought it years ago to make this shrug-like, cocoonish garment that could be wrapped, twisted and worn upside down and backwards. It looked divine on the emaciated model in the photograph. I had visions of myself wearing it to the type of soirees I'm never invited to and making a breath-taking entrance.

It was a lustful infatuation with yarn and pattern.

Autumn Flow Scarf in Blue and Gray

A week when the temperature hit 100 degrees is a bad one for finishing a scarf to give immediately as a birthday gift. But that's fate.

My blue and gray version of Christopher Bahls' Autumn Flow scarf is done now. It's an ingenious pattern that uses short rows to create wedges. Each wedge of color has a thick end and a thin end; the paired colors line up thick to thin to thick to thin. When the scarf is wrapped around the neck the ends are reverses of each other.