False Modesty by Cheryl Niamath

This is a delicious stole that will keep you warm while still showing some skin. Knit from one long edge to the other, rows of beautiful hand-painted wool-silk alternate with rows of silk-mohair to form long textured stripes of variegated colour interspersed with airy lace. Make your stole longer by casting on more stitches or make yourself a quick, dramatic boa by completing fewer pattern repeats.  

Sizes

One size 62" long x 12.5" wide

Yarn

Handmaiden Great Big Sea (50% silk, 30% wool, 20% seacell; 273 yds (250 m) / 100 g): (MC) Periwinkle, 1 skein

 Rowan Kidsilk Haze (70% Super Kid Mohair and 30% Silk; 229 yds (209 m) / 25 g): (CC) Mist, 1 skein

Needles

US #6 (4 mm): 24 inch circular needle or size needed to obtain gauge (note: project is worked back and forth, but a circular needle is necessary because of the number of CO stitches)

Gauge

17 sts and 26 rows = 4: (10 cm) in pattern, after wet blocking

Notions

Tapestry needle.