The scarf is reversible, knit in the round, with the wrong side of the stranded colorwork hidden inside. It’s an easy technique for an extra warm scarf, perfect for those first chilly fall days. The scarf begins with a sprig of fall leaves, then blooms with the last flowers of the season, from buds to bright bunches of the final hues of autumn.

Just like in nature, each flower blooms a little bit differently in the charts you’ll find here, so the stitch counts are a little bit different for each one, but like the Shetland colorwork that inspired this design, a repeat that doesn’t fit in perfectly wouldn’t bother those knitters a bit. So, these repeats are special and unique, like the blooms they represent. Many thanks to Andrea Rangel for the motifs from her book AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary: 200 Modern Knitting Motifs.

Construction method: This scarf is knit in the round, then sewed together above the ruffled edge, leaving the edge free, and the scarf reversible.

On the needles: Because stranded colorwork pulls in more than plain stockinette stitch, you change to larger needles for the colorwork sections.