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What’s a FADIENT you ask? It’s like a fade and a gradient together, and it’s the best way to slowly blend from one yarn color into to another. The magic happens when you hold multiple strands together for a stunning, painterly effect. It is also a great way to stashbust and experiment with color. The only special tool you need is a scale accurate to the gram.

For this project I decided to stay with a set of mermaid approved pastels, but you don’t necessarily need to be so coordinated or consistent. Find any colors you like - speckled, variegated, solid, anything - I promise they’ll blend smoothly together as you knit your scarf. Once knit, it’s almost impossible to tell where the yarns change, it looks like a seamless fade because of the stitch so you can pick colors freely.

Finished Size: 8” (20 cm) wide and 70” (177 cm) long.

Yarn: 3 contrasting skeins of Long Dog Yarn Sock, 400 yards (366m) per 100g skein; 80% merino 20% polyamide.
Shown in Poolside, Mermaid Hair, and Foxglove.

Needles: #10.75 (7mm) straight needles.

Gauge: 13 sts x 20 rows = 4 x 4” (10 x 10 cm) square in moss stitch.

Materials: Stitch marker, row counter, and a scale accurate to the gram.