Cambria Wrap (bluestocking5)
This wrap was knitted while celebrating (?) my 40th birthday in the Paso Robles/Cambria area in central California. A smaller rectangle would make a nice baby blanket. Yarn: Any fingering weight yarn. I used 4 skeins $(850$ yds) of Crown Mountain Farms Sock Hop yarn. Amount: $700^{-8}50$ yds for a wrap (depending on the desired length $300^{-}350$ yds (ie one skein of sock yarn) for a baby blanket Needles: US7/ 4.5mm circular needles Final size (after blocking): 7 feet x 17 inches [Note: I am tall,thus this is a long wrap.] Gauge: measured over the stitch pattern after blocking: 16 rows/14 stitches over 3 inches. But I am going out on a limb to say that gauge is really not that important in this project. Abbreviations: ssk (slip 2 stitches knitwise, and then knit together), psso (pass the slipped stitch over)
Cast on: 88 stitches (border: 6 stitches x2, pattern repeat: 6 stitch repeat $^+$ 4) Border: Knit 11 rows in garter stitch, always slipping the first stitch. Row1: k6, k1, yo Isk, k1, k2tog, yo, k, yolrepeat 12 times, sk, k1, k6 Row 2, 4, 6, 8: k6, p76, k6 Row 3: k6, k2, yo Is1 purlwise, kztog, psso, yo, k3, yol repeat 12 times, k2tog, k6 Row 5: k6, k1, k2tog Iyo, k1, yo, ssk, k1, k2togl repeat 12 times, yo, k1, k6
Row 7: k6, k2tog lyo, k3, yo, sI purlwise, ktog. pssol repeat 12 times, yo, k2, k6 Repeat until wrap is desired length. In this rather long example, I repeated the stitch pattern 60 times. 18 repeats would be enough to make a baby blanket. Border: Knit 1 rows in garter stitch, cast offlosely. Finishing: Darn in ends and block using standard techniques.
