This pattern was originally published as Close Knit’s contribution to the 2022 Rose City Yarn Crawl, February 24th – 27th, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. This pattern is also available for download as part of the 2022 Pattern Collection: Bloom.

The flower stitches decorating this bandana remind us of Portland’s gardens in late spring: full of flowers, color, (and sometimes sunshine) after several months of rain. They also resemble a fleur-de-lys, a design representing a stylized lily flower. We can’t resist a bad pun, so we called it fleur-de-LYS to represent your Local Yarn Store.

Yarn
Farmer’s Daughter Moon Sisters (70% wool, 25% nylon, 5% stellina) yarn, one skein each of two colors (photographed in colors Perma and Dumplin’).
OR
400 yards each of two colors of fingering weight yarn.

Needles
24” circular needles in size US 4/3.5mm (or preferred size to get the fabric you like) and a spare circular needle in the same size or one size smaller than the main needle

Gauge
22 sts x 42 rows = 4” in garter stitch after blocking

Notions
Tapestry needle
Blocking wires

Skill Level
Adventurous beginner

Finished Measurements
30” x 30” square
Size can be changed by knitting more or fewer rows in each triangle