Noro Two-Color Cabled Scarf Knitting Pattern

Noro Two-Color Cabled Scarf

What Is Being Made

The Noro Two-Color Cabled Scarf is a knitted accessory featuring a sophisticated cable pattern worked in two contrasting colors. The finished scarf measures 11 x 67 inches (28 x 170 centimeters), making it a substantial neck accessory suitable for layering and styling. This is a seamless, flat-worked design that combines structural cable elements with a two-color stranded technique for visual interest and depth.

Techniques Used

This project employs several intermediate to advanced knitting techniques to create its distinctive appearance:

• Cable Knitting: The primary structural technique, cables are created by crossing groups of stitches over one another using a cable needle to add three-dimensional texture and visual complexity to the fabric.
• Two-Color Stranding: The scarf utilizes a two-color technique where the main color (MC) and contrasting color (CC) are carried throughout the work. On right-side rows, all knit stitches are worked with the main color while purl stitches use the contrasting color; this pattern reverses on wrong-side rows. Yarns are carried at the back or wrong side of the work to maintain a clean appearance.
• Color Twisting: When changing between colors during the knitting process, yarns are twisted on the wrong side to prevent holes and gaps in the finished fabric.
• Bottom-Up Construction: The scarf is worked from one end to the other in a single piece, building upward from the cast-on edge.
• Seamless, Flat-Worked Design: Unlike projects requiring seaming, this scarf is worked flat on straight needles in a continuous piece, eliminating the need for finishing seams.
• Striped Effect: The combination of two-color stranding with the cable pattern creates visual striping throughout the design.

Stitches Used

The pattern incorporates fundamental and intermediate knitting stitches to build the cable structure and two-color pattern:

• Knit Stitch: The primary stitch used throughout, worked in alternating colors to create the stranded pattern.
• Purl Stitch: Used to create texture contrast and worked in the opposite color from knit stitches to achieve the two-color effect.
• Cable Stitches: Created by slipping stitches onto a cable needle, working subsequent stitches, then working the cable needle stitches to cross and twist the fabric.
• Slip Stitch: Used to pass stitches from the left needle to the right needle without working them, often employed in cable construction and edge finishing.
• Yarn Over: A decorative increase that creates new stitches and can add openwork elements to the design.
• Decrease Stitches: Techniques such as slip, slip, knit (SSK) are used to shape and balance the cable pattern.
• Selvage Stitch: An edge stitch worked at the beginning and end of rows to create clean edges that facilitate seaming if needed and improve the overall appearance of the finished piece.

Materials

The Noro Two-Color Cabled Scarf is designed to be worked with specific yarn and needles to achieve the intended gauge and drape:

• Yarn: The pattern calls for 2 x 100g skeins of Noro Silk Garden Sock Solo in colorway #s32 (main color) and 2 x 100g skeins of Noro Silk Garden Sock in colorway #s8 (contrasting color). These yarns provide the luxury fiber content and color variation characteristic of Noro products.
• Needles: One pair each of US size 5 (3.75mm) straight needles, or the size required to obtain proper gauge for the cable pattern.
• Notions: A cable needle is essential for executing the cable crossings that define this design.
• Gauge: The pattern is designed to achieve 20 stitches and 30 rows over 4 inches (10 centimeters) when worked in the cable pattern using US size 5 needles. Checking gauge before beginning is critical to ensure the finished scarf meets the specified dimensions.

Pattern Complexity

This pattern is rated as Complex, indicating it is suitable for experienced knitters comfortable with cable