Smocked Eyelet
A stitch pattern unwittingly devised by Alicia Weisberg-Roberts In the autumn of 2010, I was happily knitting what I thought was Wanietta Prescod's Knotted Openwork Scarf (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/ibrary/knotted-openwork-scarf). Reader, I was mistaken. Instead I had invented this variant, in which the syncopation of the original eyelet pattern is broken up by horizontal floats. The result is waffle-y, lofty, and little yarn-hungry. It mixes up the colours in a hand-paint beautifully, and adds welcome winter warmth to openwork. Casting on 30-33 sts will make you make a nice scarf. I recommend using needles that are quite large for yarn you have chosen. Cast on any multiple of three sts. Row I (wS): P all sts. Row 2 (RS): K2, (yo, k3, lift the yo over the 3 k sts), repeat to last st, kl. Row 3: P all sts. Row 4: K1, (k3, lift the Ist st of the 3 sts over the last 2, yo), repeat to last 2 sts, k2. Here is an example of the pattern in Claudia Hand Painted Yarn Fingering (colourway 'cabin fever?), a fingering-weight merino, on size 6 needles.
And here it is in Plassard Flore (colourway 102), a bulky mohair yarn, on 7mm needles.
