✨ The Story Behind Your Next Knit

“This skirt is begging for unique textures: cables, bobbles, and purls will make your garment stand out in any crowd!”

I mostly wear skirts and dresses in my day-to-day life, and I wanted to make something out of the box that I would wear consistently. My goal was to incorporate the squares while maintaining an A-line silhouette for the skirt, which is how I came up with using wedges to add the shape I was looking for. Scallops along the bottom edge add a touch of whimsy. With this unique construction and blank canvas squares, you will have a skirt like no other!

🧶 Quick Highlights:

• Techniques: Long-tail cast on, knit, purl, standard decreases, mattress stitch, picking up stitches, German short rows, bind off
• Construction: Strips of five squares in the same color are joined top to bottom, with wedges sewn in between each strip to make the A-line shape. Stitches are then picked up around the top for a 2x2 ribbed waistband, and around the bottom for the scalloped hem. Belt loops and a tie belt finish it.
• Make It Your Own: Squares come in two colors, and the wedges and trim are in a third. Gauge matters most for the wedges, not your squares.
• Squares needed: 25 (30, 35, 40), 45, 50, 55 total
• Yarn Weight: Aran Weight

📐 Approximate Measurements:

Sizes: 1 (2, 3, 4), 5, 6, 7

• To fit waist: 30 (36, 42, 48), 54, 60, 66“ / 76 (91.5, 106.5, 122), 137, 152.5, 167.5 cm
• Finished waist: 29.5 (35.25, 41.25, 47), 53, 59, 65“ / 75 (89.5, 105, 119.5), 134.5, 150, 165 cm
• Wedge length: 26” 66 cm
• Sample shown in size 6 with 1” 2.5 cm negative ease at the waistband.

🧶 Suggested Yarn:

• Recommended Yarn: Paintbox Yarns Wool Mix Aran (50% wool, 50% acrylic; 197 yds 180 m / 100 g)
• Colorway A: Seafoam Blue: 3 (3, 4, 4), 5, 5, 5 balls
• Colorway B: Dusty Lilac: 2 (3, 3, 4), 3, 4, 4 balls
• Colorway C: Granite Grey: 3 (3, 4, 4), 4, 5, 5 balls
• Colorway D: Vintage Pink: 1 ball (belt)
• Or a similar aran weight yarn. Check your stash first!

🥢 Needles:

• US 7 (4.5 mm), or size needed to obtain gauge in stockinette
• US 6 (4 mm), or size needed to obtain gauge in 2x2 ribbing

✂️ Notions:

• Tapestry needle
• Stitch markers

📏 Gauge:

• With larger needles: 4” 10 cm = 20 sts and 28 rows in stockinette after blocking (blocked gauge only).
• With smaller needles: 4” 10 cm = 19 sts and 28 rows in 2x2 ribbing after blocking (blocked gauge only).

📝 Pattern Notes & Support:

• This pattern is part of The Purl-Pal Project, a first-of-its-kind collaborative knitting collection from Pattern Design Runway, Season 1. Every pattern in the collection is a blank canvas built from 6” × 6” squares, so no two finished projects will look exactly alike.
• This collection was tech edited by Nicole Hawkesford and Galaxy Nova Salo.
• A big thank you to the 17 test knitters who cast on early and helped make these patterns shine! Their names are in the ebook credits.
• Questions about the pattern? Please contact the designer at galaxy@galaxyknits.com.

© Copyright & Usage:

• This pattern is for personal, non-commercial use only. You may not distribute, sell, or reproduce this pattern in whole or in part.
• Rights to this pattern return to the designer in May 2027.

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