I have loved knitting in luxury fibers forever. I love alpaca-especially baby alpaca. Alpaca fiber, considered a luxury fiber, usually rivals the popularity of such fine fibers as cashmere and pashmina due to its natural properties. It is a smooth, velvety, very lightweight, soft, and durable fiber. If 100% pure, alpaca wool is absolutely thermal due to its hollow fiber and microscopic air pockets, so you will never lose your body heat and will be able to breath in warm weather. Also, alpaca fibers do not let water or dust settle.
Misti Alpaca makes some of the most beautiful alpaca on the 
market. Their alpaca comes in many weights and blends but our personal favorite is their Hand Paint Chunky line.
As soon as we received our first shipment of this luscious beautifully hand painted yarn and piled it onto the table to stock customers began to gravitate toward the table to touch and hold the skeins of yarn. We sold out our first order that day.
I was a bit sad I have to admit because I was very excited to run home and knit up Misti’s one skein Ribs and Ruffles scarf. That afternoon I called our rep Juanita and placed a new order for whatever we could get.
As I was cleaning up that evening, I saw a soft fluffy skein on it’s side under the table. One skein of Misti Alpaca Hand Paint Chunky in Mavelous….sigh. I ran home and knit the Ribs and Ruffles scarf you see here. Enjoy your free pattern from Misti below and check out our online stock of Misti HP Chunky here.
Misti Chunky Ribs & Ruffles Scarf
Needle Size: 13
Finished scarf: 48” X5”
Material: 1 skein Misty Chunky Baby Alpaca
Instructions:
- Cast on sixty stitches.
- Ruffle Row one: knit two together across the row (you will have 30 stitches)
- Ruffle Row two: knit two together across the row (you will have 15 stitches)
- Begin Eve’s rib pattern
- Row one rib pattern:
*knit three, bring yarn forward, slip stitch as if to purl, bring yarn back, repeat pattern from *,
end with knit three. - Row two rib pattern:
knit one, bring yarn forward, slip stitch as if to purl, bring yarn back, *knit three, bring yarn
forward, slip stitch as if to purl, bring yarn back, repeat pattern from *, end with knit one. - With approximately 8 yards left on skein. Begin ruffle pattern as follows:
- Row one: knit into front and back of each stitch in row. (you will have 30 stitches)
- Row two: knit into front and back of each stitch in row. (you will have 60 stitches.Bind off with similar tension to cast on row. Sew in ends. Shape ruffles.
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