Casting on at the tip, increasing one side up to the middle and decreasing at the same side down to the other tip, this pattern grows under your hands in the most satisfying way. While knitting this little playful accessory up (and down), playful pearl stitch edges are worked on both sides.
The twisted stitches on purl background are a combination of traditional Austrian patterns, and they are easily remembered. Even increasing and decreasing while working in pattern quickly becomes natural.

Liolo has twists and turns like climbing vines - climbing vines start small but may climb the highest trees.

Clematis vitalba (de: Waldrebe) are to be found lots of places, sometimes even as evergreens. The plant starts small, but once it takes roots it sends its vines up to 30 meters high.
In most forests there is some kind of climbing shrub to be found, twisting and twining their way up to the light.
This shawlette shows criss-crossing lines, just like the branches of a climbing plant up on a tree trunk. Even the old high German name for clematis vitalba, Liolo, has a distinctive bank on the tongue when saying it out loud.
Wear this playful little accessory around your neck like a tie or wrap it around your head just so.

YARN
Any kind of yarn weight will work, and I suggest using needles with the chosen yarn so as to obtain the necessary stitch definition – size and yardage will change accordingly.

MEASUREMENTS
* orange sample
64 g Acadia The Fibre Co., 60% Merino wool, 20% baby alpaca, 20% silk, 133 m /145 yd per 50 g
* cream sample
50 g REVA ggh garn, 95% cotton, 5% other fibres, 155 m / 170 yds per 50 g

• orange sample length 158 cm / 62 ¼ “, width 9 cm / 3 ½ “
• cream sample length 132 cm / 52 “, width 8 cm / 3 ¼ “

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