Sangria Swirl by Lola

Sangria Swirl

by Lola
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Knitting
December 2011
Bulky (7 wpi) ?
US 11 - 8.0 mm
450 yards (411 m)
72″ x 12″
English
Discontinued. This digital pattern is no longer available online.

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The other day, I came upon this delicious, unlabeled yarn. The colors were beautiful, the yarn was nice and chunky so I knew it would work up fast, and it felt just lovely in my hands. I did some measuring and weighing and figured out that I had about 450yds total. Perfect for a scarfy-shawl-thingie! I thought maybe I’d just do another drop-wrap shawl, but I didn’t really want another big triangle, and so I thought I could do a rectangular one. And then…then I thought about doing a rectangle on the bias.

So I sat down, cast on a couple stitches, and started to play with it. Love. It. It spirals and stretches and you don’t really have to think much about what you’re doing. It can be worn as a scarf (doubled — it’s really long) or stretched out and worn as a wrap. Best of all, even for slow knitter me it was a crazy fast knit. I think it took me <20 hours all told, and I was figuring out the pattern as I went.