My First Cabling Project - IHS scarf

Recently tried to pick up knitting again (learned the Garter stitch in my teenager's years) and this was my first attempt in making cables. Like the pattern a lot!

The yarn was Patons Classic in black. The scarf was much softened after an Eucalan wash. I gave this to Dad as a Father's Day gift!!

Hi, Just Joined

This is a great blog and KA. I learned of it and of this beautiful scarf on KH and though I have several things OTN :o\.........what's one more right?!? I believe I will make it for my husband's aunt for Christmas.

I think this would look lovely is a Caron Simply Soft. I'm still pretty new to knitting but love cables and recently finished my first shawl, Elann's Sun Ray Shawl.

Hi from Australia

I stumbled upon this site while looking for a scarf to knit for ISE 4 (International Scarf Exchange) - one of the other participants (well probably more than one!) was a member. It looked so cool that I just had to try, even though I had never (successfully) managed cables before.

I am making the scarf using posmerino, a 80% merino wool/20% possum fur combination yarn from New Zealand, a lovely soft yarn.

This is one of those patterns that look a lot more complicated than they are in reality to do. It's also a fairly quick knit. I'm very happy with how it is turning out.

A warning for other knitters who have not knitted with cables before - this pattern eats up yarn; you'll need about 25% more than for a scarf knitted in a plain stitch. I'll be lucky to get a 55 inch long scarf out of the 350 yards of yarn.