Contains:
- Knitting pattern for graphic garter stitch shawl/wrap
- Schematic, in-progress photos, and row-by-row instructions included
- Suitable for advanced beginners
Materials you need at home:
- Three colors of fingering weight yarn: 375 m of light, 295 m of medium, and 275 m of dark for a total of 945 m. Sample was knit in Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light, a superwash merino single-ply
- 3.75 mm/US 5 needles, or size needed to obtain gauge. A circular with a 60 cm cable or longer is recommended
- Two stitch markers
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
Three colors of fingering weight yarn are used to create a bent rectangular wrap full of stripes and angles. The slight bend makes it curve nicely around your shoulders. It’s not nearly as complicated to make as it looks - just one color at a time and some short rows and decreases here and there. Instructions are given line-by-line and can simply be checked off as you go.
Skills needed: long-tail cast-on, decreasing, short rows, picking up stitches (for side borders only)
Finished measurements: see schematic in photos
Gauge: 22 stitches and 44 rows to 10 cm in lightly blocked garter stitch
Note: Though conversions to the metric system have been made on this page for your convenience, the pattern itself uses American measurements.
Laura Aylor
If ‘knitting designer’ had been one of the job choices for those aptitude tests they give you in high school, I wouldn’t have spent so many years trying to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. My best subject in high school was math; my best classes in college were logic, drawing, and a commercial art class. After careers in computer programming/analysis and child-rearing, knit design snuck up on me, but I think it’s the perfect use of my odd skill set! I love every step of the process, from figuring out how to actually make what I’ve envisioned to putting the finishing touches on a pattern, not to mention all the knitting that comes in between!
I also love reading and hiking and spending time on Brier Island in Nova Scotia every summer.