Got Your Back Wrap by Mary W Martin

Got Your Back Wrap

Knitting
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
24 stitches and 48 rows = 4 inches
in purlwise garter worked flat
US 5 - 3.75 mm
1800 - 2500 yards (1646 - 2286 m)
3 or 4 flower lengths
English
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Are you interested in trying this technique on a smaller project? See the Blooming Baby Blanket


As I knit this wrap, I thought about four of my best friends. Each are strong, vibrant people with a beauty that radiates from their core. We met 16 years ago when our daughters were in the same Grade 1 class. Our lives have changed in ways we never imagined when our children were young. I am truly thankful they were all with me through this journey.

This wrap is fully reversible and is created with Fusion Knitting. Each flower is worked from the centre out and grafted to an adjacent flower on a common edge. Small triangles complete the sides between the flowers. Each flower uses two colours of fingering weight yarn; each colour will form a flower on one side of the fabric.

This sample is knit with four colours of fingering weight yarn. The width of the wrap is adjustable by changing the gauge of your knitting. The length is the width times the number of flowers.

Finished Dimensions: 20 x 80 inches/ 50 x 203 cm
Yarn: 4 colours of fingering weight yarn; 2 skeins each
Recommended Yarn: Indigodragonfly Mergoat Sock
Needles: 3.75 mm/ US #5 circular needles.
Gauge: 24 st and 48 Rows to 4 in/ 10 cm in
purlwise garter worked flat
Resources: Fusion Knitting Resources

Variations:

  • use lace weight yarns for 18 x 76 inch wrap; look here
  • 3 flower version is 60 inches long; uses 2 skeins each of 3 colours
  • 2 colour version uses 3 skeins each of 2 colours
  • multi colour version - use your single skeins of yarn for a colourful wrap

Indigodragonfly Studio has kits for 3 flower and 4 flower wraps to create two-coloured or multi-coloured versions -- the colour combinations are invitingly cohesive with enough contrast for bold, striking flowers -- go take a look!

Tech editor: Kate Atherley

Ways to learn about my designs and reversible knitting: