As the nights are drawing in I decided it was time to get out the knitting needles and do something creative with the darer nights and dreary weather. We were in Pitlochry last weekend and I found some Pompom wool and there were some example scarves in the shop that looked fantastic and warm so I thought ‘why not?’ and promptly bought a ball in lovely Autumnal colours.

The wool is from Rico Designs and can be bought from The Sheep Shop. One ball of wool does one scarf and I used size 31/2 needles and 12 stitches which gave me a scarf about 15cm wide and a meter or so long – long enough to wrap around your neck!

To cast on you need to use the two needle method and as there isn’t a huge amount of space between each pompom this can be a little tricky but it’s worth keeping at it. You knit in plain knit in between the pompoms so start by casting on one stitch then 5 sets of 2 stitches (in between each pompom) then end with a single stitch.

When you’re knitting with this will you’ll find that when you are ready to move onto the next set of two stitches the pompon will fall into place so it’s a really simple scarf to make and the texture is gorgeous and just a bit different.

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