This is Stephanie Pearl-McPhee a/k/a Yarn Harlot‘s popular one-row scarf, available free on her blog. It is, she kids us not, one row repeated over and over until your yarn runs out or your interest wanes. I’m a big fan of rhythmic easy patterns that give a lot of bang for the buck and this is one. It’s shown here in one strand of Misti Alpaca Handpaint worsted, in what seems to be a discontinued colorway (5939), held with a strand of Cascade Yarns Kid Seta (a 70% mohair, 30% silk mix) in colorway 27. I cast on 26 stitches on size 9 US needles and ended up with a 61 inch scarf. A very satisfying quick knit.

It isn’t always predictable how two yarns will knit up together. I found it surprising that the Kid Seta darkened the alpaca to the extent it did. This is the Kid Seta and the alpaca in their “before” state.

Here is the same scarf, this time knitted on size 8’s with a 30 stitch cast on, in one skein of Mountain Colors Mountain Goat in the sagebrush colorway. Mountain Goat is a wonderful lush 55% mohair, 45% wool mix. The 230 yard skein yielded a 52 inch scarf. That’s a bit short, but still very serviceable.