Inspired by the impossibly chic French ladies Maeve spotted at a farmers’ market on her holidays, all wearing silk scarves knotted in their hair as if it took no effort at all. Back in Dublin, Maeve’s attempts with a scarf from the bottom of her wardrobe went... less well. (It was too wide. That was definitely the problem.)
So she did what any knitter would do: she picked up a skein of pink silk at Grá ’gus Snáth and decided to make her own. The scarf features in Lace and Lies, Book 5 of the Maeve Lynch Knitting Mysteries. Maeve noodles away at it all through the book, right up until her students spot it and decide they’re doing a knit-along with it. Starting next Tuesday. No pressure.
It’s knit from one skein of silk, starting with just two stitches and increasing to a pointed end. The middle is a simple four-row lace repeat you can knit for as long as you like, so you can wear it in your hair, knotted at your neck, or tied on your bag. Then you decrease to a matching point at the other end. Maeve struggled to get those final decreases into a neat triangle, so you don’t have to.
Light, drapey and easy enough to knit while you chat. Very chic, very French-adjacent, and very Maeve.
Inspired by the impossibly chic French ladies Maeve spotted at a farmers’ market on her holidays, all wearing silk scarves knotted in their hair as if it took no effort at all. Back in Dublin, Maeve’s attempts with a scarf from the bottom of her wardrobe went... less well. (It was too wide. That was definitely the problem.)
So she did what any knitter would do: she picked up a skein of pink silk at Grá ’gus Snáth and decided to make her own. The scarf features in Lace and Lies, Book 5 of the Maeve Lynch Knitting Mysteries. Maeve noodles away at it all through the book, right up until her students spot it and decide they’re doing a knit-along with it. Starting next Tuesday. No pressure.
It’s knit from one skein of silk, starting with just two stitches and increasing to a pointed end. The middle is a simple four-row lace repeat you can knit for as long as you like, so you can wear it in your hair, knotted at your neck, or tied on your bag. Then you decrease to a matching point at the other end. Maeve struggled to get those final decreases into a neat triangle, so you don’t have to.
Light, drapey and easy enough to knit while you chat. Very chic, very French-adjacent, and very Maeve.
