Floating Layers Scarf

This scarf began as a creative exercise in a design class with Natalie Warner. I was thinking about layers of fabric, joined together to make a scarf that could be tied in different ways. I wanted the colours to peak out on their own and also layer when viewed through each other. I also wanted to combine textures, to create different effects.

The result is a great stash buster and a way to highlight special skeins in your stash, those that you have been saving for just the right project.

The scarf is customizable, to suit the amount of yarn you have available.

Skills Required:

• working with thin yarn
• working with multiple needles
• working with yarn held triple

Finished size (blocked): 9.5"/24 cm wide by 55.5"/141 cm long

Needle Size: US#2.5/3.00mm needle or size to obtain gauge (3 needles)

NOTE: You will need 3 separate needles of the same size for this project.

Other Tools:

• Unwaxed dental floss, barber cord (flexible silicon cords) or other method to temporarily hold stitches 
• Tapestry needle

Yarn: 1,000 yards/914 meters of a variety of weights of yarn.

Yarn #1: Fingering weight yarn: 420 yards/384 meters

Yarn #2: Lace weight yarn: 300 yards/274 meter

Yarn #3: Cobweb yarn: 280 yards/256 meter

Shown In:

Yarn #1 (Slubby yarn): Full Moon Fibres ‘Moon Rock Slub’, (90% merino, 10% nylon; 3.53 oz/100 grams; 438 yards/401 meters), 1 skein, Sapphire.

Yarn #2 (Multicolour silk/mohair): Leo and Roxy Yarn Co. ‘Mohair Silk’, (75% mohair, 25% silk; 1.76 oz/50 grams; 420 yards/384 meters), 1 skein, Raspberry Leomonade Nerds.

Yarn #3 (Pink silk/mohair): Julie Asselin ‘Anatolia’, (60% mohair, 40% silk; 0.88 oz/25 grams; 320 yards/293 meters), 1 skein, Paprika.