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.


The light blue color is Lotus Yarns' Autumn Wind (90 percent cotton and 10 percent cashmere). The gray, boucle yarn is Trendsetter Yarns' Cin Cin, which is a viscose, cotton, acrylic and poly blend. The finished scarf has a wonderful drape and is long enough to wear in a variety of ways.

I have two more variations in those yarns to do: one is a royal blue and russet pairing and the other a hot pink and aqua and green pairing. I have a third one that I'm planning as an experiment.  It uses a teal and a variegated yarn of the same style in teals, blues and purples.  It will be very low contrast, so it may not work well. The yarns aren't as high a quality and are thicker, so some adjustments may be needed.

I'm knitting a simpler scarf that alternates a variegated multi-colored yarn with a navy. At the end of each row, the yarn is cut and then knotted with the alternate yarn, creating a fringe as you go.