This neck warmer was knit using Blue Sky Alpacas Hand Worsted Dye yarn in a caper green color; used US#9 needle and the buttons are shank style, leather knots purchased from MJTrimmings. The pattern was purchased from Knitpicks.com. This was a great exercise in cables and learning to read my cable twists. The edging was a crochet scalloped edging which I did for the first time. Seed/Moss stitch was between the cable edges and the crocheted scalloped edging. In order to keep the consistent color in attaching the buttons, I split the yarn into two strands and used that to sew the buttons onto the neck warmer and then wove the remaining endings throughout to keep it neat. The piece was blocked as the garter stitch edging tended to curl.
This yarn was really easy to work with and it did not split. The pattern was also very easy to memorize and thus you don't need to carry instructions with you. It was an eight row pattern repeat. Hope my daughter enjoys wearing this, maybe not this season but next.
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