The Far Fields was designed in 2020 as part of Rowan Tree Travel’s Armchair Travel Knit Kits. Our intent was to connect our travel community with the yarn farmers and artisans at our various destinations through the Covid-19 pandemic. We no longer offer these kits -- or are stuck at home due to the pandemic -- but you can still enjoy making a scarf, stole or poncho with this pattern. And if you get to purchase some of Whistlebare’s lovely yarns on one of our fiber adventures in the north of England, that’s even better!

Wrap yourself in a beautiful pasture of lace grass, bordered by cables!

One of my favorite things about traveling in the UK is the opportunity to look out over the countryside. I revel in quintessential English landscape — market towns, stone church spires, climbing wisteria, clematis and roses, occasional thatched roofs and most especially herds of sheep grazing on green fields. I live in the southwestern US. My hometown lies just where the desert meets the mountains. It’s an arid landscape, populated by desert scrub, dry canyons, jagged mesas and distant mountain ranges. To see sheep grazing in rich, green fields (that don’t require irrigation) feels like a miracle! Plus, since I knit and love to spin yarn, I feel a special affinity for sheep. How could I not love an animal that offers up a yearly harvest from which we may make all manner of useful, beautiful things? This garment is inspired by — and is my ode to — those fluffy beasts. To sheep! Long may they grow wool for us!

Finished Measurements: 30 in x 60 in/56 cm x 152 cm or the longer length of 80 in/203 cm. Easy to adapt to different lengths and widths.

Notions US 5/UK 3.75mm needles l stitch markers (9-12 recommended)

Pattern includes both charts and line-by-line written instructions for lace and cable work.