See my blog post here.

finished size: 51” on straight side. 10 1/2” at widest point. 21 ruffles on long side. 14 ruffles on short side.

guage: 21 stitches/ 24 rows in 4”

Used 2 balls + very small amount from a third.

To get the striping worked 2 rows at a time from two different balls (both coming from the inside of the ball.)

Day 1: Finished 9 short row sections. Am loving this project. I’ve taken two balls of yarn, doing 2 rows of each color. Makes interesting single stripes on one side and a sort of ombred effect on the other.

Day 2: Up to 14 short row sections. Going slower now that the it’s longer. Am a little worried the stripe patterns are starting to break up because of the longer rows. Am fighting temptation to rip it out & start controlling where the color starts and stops. Will work a while longer & see how it emerges naturally before I decide what to do. Therapy via knitting….

Day 4: Finished 21 short row sections. Going to start working back for the edging.

Was one of the few I pick up that just worked from the beginning. Usually it takes me 5 or 6 false starts to get happy with the pattern, the way I’m using the yarn etc. But this one was smooth from the beginning. I’d bought the yarn years ago with the intent of doing a short row scarf where I let the colors dictate where the short rows would appear. Didn’t work at all. Not sure if it was the length of the color repeats, or more likely my impatience & unwillingness to stick with it and keep trying different things.

Knitting goes very quickly and didn’t require any restarts. Not exactly sure what the instruction for PW meand: Pick up the wrap and knit it together with the wrapped stitch. There are 3 different ways to do this that I could figure out. In the end it didn’t seem to matter much - they all looked pretty much the same.