How to Knit a Beautiful Scarf Using Lion Brand Yarns Touch of Alpaca

What You Need

Needles: 5mm straight or circular needles

Yarn: Lion Brand Yarns Touch of Alpaca, 90% acrylic 10% alpaca. 622 yards (I used 1 skein of Bonus Bundle 415 yards and 1 skein of the 207 yards of colorway Crimson, or you could use 3 skeins of the regular ToA)

Gauge

18 stitches/20 rows = 4 inches in stockinette

Finished Garment Size

Length: 64 inches, Width: 10 inches

Skills Needed & Abbreviations

• CO: cast on
• BO: bind off
• RS: right side
• WS: wrong side
• St: stitch/es
• Rep: repeat
• K: knit
• P: purl
• Sl st kw: slip right-hand needle into the 1st stitch on the left-hand needle like you are going to knit it. Without knitting it, simply slip it to the right-hand needle. Continue knitting as usual.
• Yo: yarn over
• Ssk: slip, slip, knit. Slip the first stitch as if to knit onto right-hand needles, slip the second stitch as if to knit, then slide the left-hand needle into the front part of both stitches and knit them together.
• K2tog: knit 2 together
• PM: place marker
• P3tog: purl 3 together
• C12b rib: cable 12 back rib. Slip 6 stitches onto cable needle. With cable needle held in back of work, [p1, k1] x3 rib, then [p1, k1] x3 rib from cable needle.
• C12f rib: cable 12 forward rib. Slip 6 stitches onto cable needle. With cable needle held in front of work, [p1, k1] x3 rib, then [p1, k1] x3 rib from cable needle.

The Pattern

CO 54 stitches

Set up Row: (WS) p1, k2, p2, k44, p2, k2, p1

Row Instructions

• Row 1: (RS) sl st kw, k2, yo, ssk, PM, k6, PM, [p1, k1] x6, PM, p8, PM, [p1, k1] x6, PM, k6, PM, k2tog, yo, k2, sl st kw
• Row 2: p1, k2, p9, [k1, p1] x5, k1, *(k1, p1, k1) all in next stitch, p3tog*, rep * *once more, [p1, k1] x6, p8, k2, p1
• Row 3: rep Row 1.
• Row 4: p1, k2, p2, k6, [p1, k1] x6, *p3tog, (k1, p1, k1) all in next stitch*, rep * *once more, [p1, k1] x6, k6, p2, k2, p1
• Row 5: rep Row 1.
• Row 6: p1, k2, p2, k6, [p1, k1] x6, *(k1, p1, k1) all in next stitch, p3tog*, rep * *once more, [p1, k1] x6, k6, p2, k2, p1
• Row 7: rep Row 1.
• Row 8: p1, k2, p9, [k1, p1] x5, k1, *p3tog, (k1, p1, k1) all in next stitch*, rep * *once more, [p1, k1] x6, p8, k2, p1
• Row 9: sl st kw, k2, yo, ssk, k6, c12b rib, p8, [p1, k1] x6, k6, k2tog, yo, k2, sl st kw
• Row 10: rep Row 6.
• Row 11: sl st kw, k2, yo, ssk, k6, [p1, k1] x6, p8, c12f rib, k6, k2tog, yo, k2, sl st kw
• Row 12: rep Row 4.
• Row 13: rep Row 1.
• Row 14: rep Row 2.
• Row 15: rep Row 1.
• Row 16: rep Row 4.
• Row 17: rep Row 1.
• Row 18: rep Row 6.
• Row 19: rep Row 1.
• Row 20: p1, k2, p9, [k1, p1] x5, k1, *p3tog, (k1, p1, k1) all in next stitch*, rep * *once more, [p1, k1] x6, p8, k2, p1
• Row 21: rep Row 1.
• Row 22: p1, k2, p2, k6, [p1, k1] x6, *(k1, p1, k1) all in next stitch, p3tog*, rep * *once more, [p1, k1] x6, k6, p2, k2, p1
• Row 23: rep Row 1.
• Row 24: p1, k2, p2, k6, [p1, k1] x6, *p3tog, (k1, p1, k1) all in next stitch*, rep * *once more, [p1, k1] x6, k6, p2, k2, p1
• Row 25: rep Row 1.
• Row 26: p1, k2, p9, [k1, p1] x5, k1, *(k1, p1, k1) all in next stitch, p3tog*, rep * *once more, [p1, k1] x6, p8, k2, p1
• Row 27: sl st kw, k2, yo, ssk, k6, c12b rib, p8, [p1, k1] x6, k6, k2tog, yo, k2, sl st kw
• Row 28: rep Row 24.
• Row 29: sl st kw, k2, yo, ssk, k6, [p1, k1] x6, p8, c12f rib, k6, k2tog, yo, k2, sl st kw
• Row 30: rep Row 22.
• Row 31: rep Row 1.
• Row 32: rep Row 20.
• Row 33: rep Row 1.
• Row 34: rep Row 22.
• Row 35: rep Row 1.
• Row 36: rep Row 24.

Repeat Row 1 - Row 36 until scarf reaches 64 inches or whatever length you like.

BO on RS row.