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Read the Story: Or feel free to skip straight to the pattern. It won’t hurt my feelings! This scarf is a companion to my original “ Roots of Yggdrasil ” pattern. Inspired by my mixed Norse and Gaelic heritage, I incorporate a lot of cable work to represent Nordic and Celtic symbols. The original “Roots” pattern continues within this “Boughs” pattern by starting with a “trunk” made of three braided cables with a total of nine strands (three roots of Yggdrasil and nine worlds).

Read the Story: Or feel free to skip straight to the pattern. It won’t hurt my feelings! Like many Americans, I have a mixed ancestry. I’ve always been fascinated by my heritage and have learned a lot about my family. Two lineages that have stood out especially were my Scots-Irish and Scandinavian bloodlines. I always viewed these as two separate sets of ancestors, but I learned later in life how intertwined the stories of the Celts and the Norse are. Vikings from Scandinavia

Read the Story: Or feel free to skip straight to the pattern. It won’t hurt my feelings! This scarf is designed to use two of the basic stitches in crochet: single crochet and double crochet. I developed this pattern as a project for students learning these basic crochet stitches at a local yarn shop–A Chick That Knitz–where I would attend knit night each week. I wanted to create something that looked hard but would be surprisingly easy. With simple front-post stitches and cl