Windswept Days

Sale Price: $6.40 Original Price: $8.00

How do the days, weeks, months, seasons, and years seem to pick up speed along the way? This project encourages a bit of time to knit, and hopes for lots of moments to celebrate!

How do the days, weeks, months, seasons, and years seem to pick up speed along the way? This project encourages a bit of time to knit, and hopes for lots of moments to celebrate!

Description:

Difficulty/Skills Required:
Beginner/Intermediate.
Long tail cast on, Knit, Purl, K2TOG, YO, Icelandic Bind off, Blocking, Weaving in ends.

Yarn Weight:
Fingering/Sock, Lac.

Notions:
Tapestry needle, Blocking materials.

Gauge, blocked:
Garter Stitch in fingering: 20 sts and 34 rows = 4” / 10 cm
Stockinette Stitch in laceweight: 20 sts and 30 rows = 4” /10 cm
Gauge isn’t crucial, as it’s a shawl, but it will affect yardage.

Suggested Yarns:
Emma’s Yarn Slubby Slub (90% Superwash Merino, 10% Nylon), 438 yds / 401 m per 3.5 oz / 100 g skein.
Emma’s Yarn Marvelous Mohair (72% Kid Mohair, 28% Silk), 459 yds / 420 m per 1.76 oz / 50 g skein.

Yarn Shown & Yardage:
MC: Emma’s Yarn Slubby Slub, colorway Tropic Like It’s Hot: 385 yds / 352 m.
CC: Emma’s Yarn Marvelous Mohair, colorway Tropic Like It’s Hot: 195 yds / 178 m.

Needle Size: US 7 / 4.5 mm 40” / 102 cm circular needle or needle size to get gauge.

Size Information:
Sample size, fully blocked:
Tip to tip across longest side: approx 75” / 190.5 cm. Depth at deepest point: approx 21” / 53.5 cm.

Tech Editing: Annie B. Lin