kid mohair scarf

we spent the whole weekend obsessing over the thing, calling catherine the great for her knitting advice and expertise, and experimented:
there was the mutidirectional pattern:

the interweave knits flowerbasket shawl:

fooled around with domino knitting (particularly keen on something like the diamonds in the vogue knitting top) and got nowhere in a hurry...what we were really looking for is something mindless to knit that won't need a pattern to carry around, just the yarn and needles.

so the winner is a simple rib pattern - methinks it's called a mistake rib, 'cause you kinda cheat by k1, p1 on one side, then knit the other side, which gives an almost moss stitch on one side, rib on the other. photos when it's decent - still a little tiny and nekkid on the needles at the moment. the yarn is amazing stuff to knit with though - it's so luscious to the touch.