Sparkly, Soft Scarf for Mme Martine

It's end-of-year gift time for teachers around here. I've blogged before about how much we loved Hugh's teacher this year, and I had made Neva's teacher a pair of baby booties for her imminent twins, so it only seemed fair that I offer to knit something for Hugh's teacher as well. He thought she might like a scarf, and this seemed like a reasonable request, so I put all of the yarn choices out for him and asked him to choose which yarn(s) he thought she would like. He took this assignment very seriously; he said that he thought she would like "something soft and something sparkly." He felt the yarn to assess their softness, and quite quickly settled on two, both mohair blends. (You can't beat mohair for softness.) I realized that I could hold the two yarns together to create a nice, thick, soft-and-sparkly yarn. I used big needles and a big stitch pattern, and whipped up this little scarf in about ten days. When I showed the finished product to him, he nodded and said it was "perfect." My guess was that she would be touched by the handmade effort and the thoughtfulness Hugh put in to the choice of yarn, and indeed she was. As she thanked me yesterday after school and wished us all a good summer, she asked me to make sure that Hugh "continues to dream." We'll miss her.
Yarn: Sandnes Garn Alfa and Lion Brand Moonlight Mohair, held together
Pattern: Twisted Drop Stitch Scarf