The pictures don’t do justice to the gloriously rich look of this wrap in living color. The thing is as awesome as Sally Melville says it is: surprisingly addictive, easy, and fast to knit--maybe it’s all the colors, maybe that and the slip-stitch pattern--and just eye-popping to look at.

I felt a bit abandoned by the pattern when it came time to finish the long edges (all those tails!), and anyway I didn’t want the wrap to flare out as the pattern specifies. Instead I picked up a normal number of stitches (2 for every 3 rows of the wrap), worked reverse stockinette for 5 rows, bound off the 6th row, folded it back (tucking all the loose tails inside and obviating the need to weave any of them in) and sewed down the top of the border next to its own picked-up-and-knitted base, if that makes sense, on the back of the wrap.

And about the pictures: the indoor model is my mom, and the wrap was made for her. But a colleague was kind enough to model it for me--those are the outdoor shots--so I could take some pictures before I shipped it off to Mom, who lives in another state. The photos came out so well I felt I had to put one or two up here--and also to show the look of the wrap on a younger woman.