Cayley is a cozy, generous scarf with horizontal and vertical lines in a soft grid. It’s made in North Light Fibers Spring Street, which is a fingering merino, and Forever Lace, which is an alpaca lace. The kit is available here.

The soft grid is created by working two 1-row patterns from sequence knitting every two rows, one with just knits and purls, and one with slip stitches. The knit-purl only rows are worked in just fingering, and the knit-purl-slip rows are worked with the fingering held with lace to create marled stripes.

The broad horizontal stripes are created by changing the color of the lace yarn on the marled rows. Only two balls are used at any time and it is an easy and comforting piece to knit.

To make your own, choose a main color in fingering and two other colors in lace where one of the lace colors is very close to the main color and the other is very different.