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Widening Gyre
Widening Gyre is a phrase coined by the Irish poet, W B Yeats, in the opening line of his post-war apocalyptic poem, The Second Coming. A gyre is a circular motion or form and so describes this spiral scarf.
Widening Gyre follows a simple pattern that creates a stylish scarf, or a dramatic structural wrap. Each row has a 1 stitch increase at the end of a right-side row and then again at the start of the wrong side row.
The pattern gives instructions for a scarf, but additional patterns can be worked to give a dramatic wrap. Similarly, it could be constructed using a thicker yarn for a warmer cosier wrap.
The sample uses less than two skeins of fingering/4ply undyed merino wool.
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- First published: November 2019
- Page created: November 15, 2019
- Last updated: February 19, 2020 …
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