Mr. Whipple would hate me

After the smashing success of the felted box (which DH says is the envy of the golf locker room), my husband made a request for a scarf. I happily trotted down to the LYS and began squeezing all the yarn on the pretext that I didn't want anything that would irritate my hubby's neck. Fortunately, the long-suffering ladies at Modern Yarn understand my obssession with the feel of the yarn.

Since the project is for my DH and since nothing is too good for him, I indulged in 100% Mongolian cashmere. (I had earned a 10% discount so that helped ease the price pain a little.) It's imported by the wonderfully named Jade Sapphire Exotic Fibres of Nyack, NY. Here's a closeup which I hope conveys some of the exquisitely delicious softness of the yarn.



When no one's in the room with me, I find myself cuddling the balls against my cheek.

I chose the "Campus" pattern from my favorite book ScarfStyle for several reasons:

1) It's lo-o-o-ng (one of DH's requirements for the ideal scarf);
2) It's masculine;
3) It has a fun but easy pattern, almost a rhythm;
4) It's reversible.

The book describes it thus: In this modern unisex scarf, Fiona Ellis (the pattern's creator) combines symmetry and asymmetry, textured stitch pattern, and colorwork.



I toned down the "colorwork" a bit, using three colors instead of six in order to keep it predominantly black. However, the "plaid" knit-and-purl stitch pattern makes even the dark sections look interesting (in person anyway--my photography isn't up to the task of capturing the texture).

Here's my question for the day: if you could pick any yarn in the world to knit with (and price was irrelevant in this perfect world of my imagination), what would it be?