Web-Letter, Issue 12 – Stormy Scarf I never thought I’d say this, but here it is: I’m getting a little tired of warm and sunny weather. I’m tired of keeping track of my sunglasses. I like a short run of sunny days to be followed by dark clouds and the sound of tires swishing on wet pavement. It’s not that I’m a negative person or a grump. But as a knitter, I love to be snug indoors with a good couch, a good light, and a good project. If you’re lucky enough to have cold or rainy weather where you are, consider holing up with a soft cashmere yarn and a simple pattern. Our Stormy Scarf is perfect for: • getting a start on gift knitting for the holidays • preparing for blissful raw weather that’s sure to come round one of these days • working on during baseball playoffs • relishing the touch of the world’s softest yarn.
The Story: Scarves are wonderful things for knitters—the comfort food of needlework. Cast on and work straight. If you leave your pattern in another room, or someone spills coffee on it, not to worry. After the first few rows, you carry the instructions within. The Stormy Scarf is worked in a simple knit-and-purl pattern. The blocky nature of the stitch pattern complements the homey look of the tweed yarn. A simple stitch—and row—repeat lets you make the scarf wider, narrower, shorter or longer.  Make it in a rich earthy rust as shown—it takes 3 skeins—or work it up in a pretty color, like soft rose. Stormy comes in aqua, green, orange, blue, brown, purple, and rose, take a look. The Yarn: Stormy — 100% cashmere Stormy is not just another cashmere yarn (as if there were anything everyday about any cashmere yarn). Stormy combines the caressable hand of cashmere with the rustic, speckled look of a comfortable Scottish tweed. Read more about cashmere. Where to buy Stormy. The Stitches: Basic knit-and-purl stitch patterns are great fun to experiment with. You can invent your own with pencil and graph paper; anything is possible, from a small repeat—an uneven rib pattern or a variation of seed stitch—to a large damask-type pattern of leaves and flowers. If you’re in a sampling mood, take a favorite yarn (or yarns) and work up squares in a variety of knit-and-purl patterns from a stitch dictionary and combine them into a sampler scarf. Or just start knitting a pattern that you like, then when it gets tedious, change to another one. Your gauge might change a bit, but it’s a scarf, after all. It's meant to be fun to knit and a little less than perfect.	more photos The Pattern: Here's the free downloadable Stormy Scarf pattern.
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