In the summer I love to sit on my balcony and knit. Inspired by the climbing Passiflora that instinctively reached out for spaciousness I created this wrap for when you want that little extra space in the back to feel comfortable.

Easy to make, and a lot of fun to knit. Lays perfect on your shoulders. The “body” of this big wrap is worked in the round. Decrease some of your stitches and the next step, the “skirt” is worked back and forth with some fun simple lace increases. No picking up stitches. Then go on for as long as you like, or your yarn last.

My goal with this pattern was to strike that fine balance: calm, meditative knitting, but never boring. As a friend said: “Looks just right for the kind of knitting I seem to have settled into; not too simple, not too fancy, and wearable”.

There is a given yarn percentage used for each part of the pattern, in case you want to use more, less or another yarn than the one the sample is knitted from.

The sample is knitted from 375 gram /approx. 2000 meters/approx. 2200 yards of Wollmeise lace. With one full skein of Wollmeise lace (300 gram=1575 meters/1722 yards ) you get a slightly smaller wrap. The sample has 17 lace repeats, one skein will give you about 14 repeats, and a wingspan of 150 cm compared to the sample that has a 185 cm wingspan. Any kind of lace or light fingering yarn could be used.

My lovely and very skilled testers Jeanamaria
hexe1isora and svetula27
used different yarns, one of them used fingering weight and it turned out beautiful. One of them used 1 full skein of Wollmeise lace, also lovely. Please go see their project pages for pictures.