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Star Hopping
Star Hopping wrap is a fun and easy knit. It is perfect for knitting in front of the TV, long road trips, or drinking wine! The repeats are short, intuitive, and easy to memorize. You only have to work with one color at a time as the slip stitches create a beautiful texture in the fabric.
You can use high-contrast colors, mid-range contrast, and low contrast. Solids with variegated, 2 semi-solids together, gradients, ombres. Do you have a hand-painted yarn, that is “being difficult” and doesn’t want to be anything but a colorful mess? That one can be tamed too! Just pair it with a contrasting solid and you’re good to go!
The size of the wrap is easy to adjust both in width (by casting on more or fewer stitches) and in length (by working more or fewer main body repeats). The pattern is very versatile and can be worked on a variety of bases, from fingering to DK weight.
The wrap is a rectangular shape, knitted sideways on a bias. The main body of the pattern can be worked from the written instructions or the chart.
YARN: Miss Babs Tarte
- MC (overlay) - 2 skeins of Orchid;
- CC (background) - 2 skeins of Cascara.
Or any similar fingering weight yarn in 2 contrasting colors:
MC -approx. 670 yd., CC - approx. 940 yd.
NEEDLES: US 4 (3.5 mm)
NOTIONS: darning needle
GAUGE: 26 sts x 52 rows = 4” in pattern. Gauge is not crucial for this project, but it will affect yardage and finished size if different from above.
SIZING: Cast-on edge width: 22”/ 56 cm
Length (along the edge): 75”/195 cm
Width (approximately): 17”/43 cm
SKILLS: knit, slip 1, kfb, k2tog.
Instructions are available in two formats:
compact (2 pages, 11 pt)
large print (5 pages, 20 pt), the version with big letters for tablets and e-readers; also for those knitters who have difficulties reading small font on paper.
On Instagram (find me as @galimka_knits) use hashtag #star_hopping_wrap
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- First published: November 2022
- Page created: November 23, 2022
- Last updated: March 6, 2023 …
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