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Treasured Moment Wrap

Enjoy a celebration of lacework and play with colour as you create your version of this ultra feminine high drape large cozy wrap, which with it’s versatile rectangular with tapering ends shape makes both an elegant cover up and a warm cozy essential .
What I love about lace in knitting is that it creates pictures, it can draw a story…
And this lace wrap is my recreation of one of the most magical, golden and treasured moments in my life.
It was just a day, but it was a day that I spent in Brighton, on the English South Coast, with my best friend who also happened to be my mother and who no longer walks through this life beside me. Finishing off the day, we sat sipping our cappuccinos at an open air cafe on the pier gazing out to the natural embrace of sky and sea horizon… It was utterly perfect, just a beautiful pristine untouched moment of complete bliss, where as it seemed the late afternoon summer sky gleamed in layers of translucent harmonious shades of cream, peach and lavender above the sparkling blue surface of the sea and into the deep expansive seemingly endless blue… It’s just an instant of a memory, but the sensation of emotion in it for me triggers the feeling of the sun warming my face and the seaside air invigorating me and reminds me every time why it’s a most precious, eternal, and lovingly held treasured moment…
Dig yours up, choose shades to represent it and relive that treasured moment whenever you see, wear and enjoy it.
You will cast on a large amount of stitches, working down from the top, steadily increasing at each end whilst working various 14 Stitch repeat lace patterns and colour blocks, until reaching a set amount of stitches and then increase down again to the initial cast on amount. So as you’ll be working end to end horizontally, top down, rather then end to end over the longest length of the wrap, the rows will be of a large stitch amount but it doesn’t take that long to reach the bottom bind off. You can knit it in 5 block colours as I have, or a single colour or any combination you like.
I used Mirasol Nuna for the sample, which is a merino silk blend, but any Sport weight yarn that offers good drape and stitch definition will be fine. The skeins for the yarn are stated to weigh 50g, but they were mostly a little over and I mostly went into that extra few grams, so especially if you’re gauge is slightly different you might feel safer using a yarn that offers skeins/balls in a 100 grams weight.
These are an approx yardage amounts I used of each colour.
Yarn A : Seashell, (cream) (actual amount used 179 meters /195 yards)
Yarn B : Coral, (Blush) (actual amount used 179 metres / 195 yards)
Yarn C : Blue Bonnet, (Lilac) (actual amount used 347 metres / 379 yards)
Yarn D : Steel Blue (Blue) (actual amount used 175 metres / 191 yards)
Yarn E : French Navy (darker blue)(actual amount used 158 metres / 172 yards)