I was admiring a wrap made by SBonnie recently and decided to take a stab at figuring it out.

What I ended up with seems pretty close and was fun to decipher and make. I used a mystery yarn that I purchased at Goodwill - it was in a whole garbage bag full of hand spun, hand dyed wool. :o) This is bright pink and orange - maybe Kool-Aid dyed?

Tension 8. I used 99 needles to make 10 vertical waves and repeated the design across 50 times. I used 7 needles in work on each end and the rest alternating 5 needles in and out of work. There are 4 plain rows of knitting on each end where I added the fringe. I knitted 8 rows between 2 sets of stitches. On the 9th row I pushed the next new set of stitches into work and after that pass I pulled the old stitches into holding. I knit 16 rows on the end - using the 17th row to push the new stitches in the opposite direction into work and then continued in the new direction. That gave a nice edge curve.

The design is easy to work, even a bit monotonous, but goes quickly and is very forgiving. If you drop a stitch it is easy to see where you need to pick up or how many rows you need to knit without a row counter because you can always just count the “ladders” created between the two sets of stitches you are currently working with.

3/11/13
I did a lot of thinking! Then I did my cast on and began knitting. I sort of figured things out as I went. I found that I MUST use weights on the stitches being worked. The rest … meh - I was using a cast on comb and weights for them at first, but by and by they were happy to hang free.

3/12/13
Things progressed quickly today and I was able to finish all the knitting. I need to block and add fringe.

3/13/13
Blocking. Measures 69” x 17.5” before fringe.

3/14/13
Added fringe. It was worth the extra pins to get a nice curve on the sides when I blocked it - as well as taking the time to do all of the math and drafting of the guide used for a pinning reference. It sort of looks like a giant piece of ric-rack. :oD

I don’t know where I might wear such a thing, but it is warm and pretty … and I like it.