Road Map scarf

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This is Susan Barstein’s SknitsB’s Road Map scarf, shown here in six shades of Blue Sky Alpaca Silk. They looked so perfect all skeined up and ready to go that I almost hated to get started.

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I loved knitting this and think it came out just as I expected. Very sweet and a tad showy. The only thing I forgot? That I don’t much care for scarfs that have a public and a non-public side. I’m not someone to drape a scarf as if it were some sort of stole or vestment. That’s a little more showy then I can pull off. I prefer my scarves wrapped a few times around my neck keeping me toasty warm.

I will get use out of this, though.

The pattern was perfectly written. No mistakes. It’s very easy to keep tooling down the road through stitches that the designer calls “tire treads,” “car bingo,” manholes,” “bumps in the road,” “a road less traveled,” “coastline waves,” “cobblestone roads,” “speed bumps,” and “end of the road.” Not a bit of boring. Well, miles of applied I-cord on the vertical lengths, that was boring.  “Are we there yet…are we there yet?”

Here’s a closer look at some of the sections:

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This is my first tour with Blue Sky Alpaca. It’s incredibly soft and yummy. But I’d have liked it better, for this project, if it was a bit beefier.

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8 thoughts on “Road Map scarf

  1. @Alicia…thanks! It’s a very entertaining knit. The ruffles are fun to do.

  2. I just ran across your beautiful version of SKNITSB’s roadmap. Thanks for featuring my pattern. I hope you will try other Sknitsb designs.

    Thanks. Susan

  3. I Am about to start this scarf and was curious as to how each section is knitted to each other. Can you explain? Thanjs

  4. @Jodi James…you simply change to the new colors of yarn in the various different sections of the scarf. Add in the new color and weave in the end anyway that works for you. There is no seaming. I hope that helps.

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