Windswept Waltz by Dawn Barker

Windswept Waltz

Knitting
April 2026
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
24 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches
in pattern
US 3 - 3.25 mm
860 - 870 yards (786 - 796 m)
English
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Inspired by the windy landscape of my home in the Texas Panhandle, Windswept Waltz is a wide, bias-knit scarf worked flat in two alternating colors.
A celebration of simple knit and purl stitches, the Windswept Waltz is an exercise in sequence knitting. The same 3 x 3 rib pattern is worked throughout but takes on a twist at the beginning of each row set. The resulting texture is inspired by a field of prairie grass being blown by the gale-force winds of springtime on the high plains.

Yarn
1 skein in any tonal colorway plus
1 skein in a complimenting colorway of Barker Wool BFL Fingering, 100g each.
Shown here in Westward & Crabapple.

Needles: US size 3 (3.25mm) circular needles on a 24” cable
Gauge: 24 STS x 32 rows = 4 x 4” in pattern
Finished Measurements: 13” wide x 68” long on bias.