Vaip by Aleks Byrd

Vaip

Knitting
February 2015
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
16 stitches and 16 rows = 2 inches
US 2 - 2.75 mm
876 - 900 yards (801 - 823 m)
English
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VAIP - Tapestry; Estonian

Vaip is a modern, wearable and beautiful cowl with stripes of pattern evoking the details of tapestries.

Samples uses a total of 4 colours, however you can use as many or as few colours as you would like.

Colouring charts are included in the pattern to plan and create your own colour combo of as many colours as desired to match your yarns.

PATTERN NOTES
This cowl is knit in the round with the ends grafted together to create a seamless finish that also hides the floats and creates a double thickness.

It begins with a provisional cast-on such as a crochet cast-on method with waste yarn.

The provisional cast-on in waste yarn is carefully undone to place the live stitches onto a second set of needles for grafting using the Kitchener stitch method.

The stranded colorwork is worked in stripes of different chart patterns.

Skill Level: intermediate
Skills Used:
• Provisional cast-on
• Knitting in the round
• Stranded colourwork, working 2 colours at a time
• Kitchener stitch

SIZE
Circumference approx. : 33” / 84 cm
Width approx. : 9.5” / 24 cm

YARN

Garthenor Organic Preseli (Polwarth, Romney, Hebridean, 219 yds / 200 m – 50g)

Jewel Tone version
C1: Dragonfly 1 skein
C2: Blazer 1 skein
C3: Raspberry 1 skein
C4: Gorse 1 skein

Greens version
C1: Spearmint 1 skein
C2: Holly 1 skein
C3: Tilia 1 skein
C4: Willow 1 skein

Original sample used :
Claudia Hand Painted Yarns
Addiction Fingering
(Superwash Merino)
175 yards / 160 m - 50 g skein
9 colours used, 1 skein of each colour