VAIP
Estonian for tapestry
Vaip is a modern, wearable and beautiful cowl with stripes of pattern evoking the details of tapestries.
The stripes feature different sized stranded colourwork patterns knit in the round and grafted together for a seamless stunning cowl.
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FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
A. Width: 8.5” / 22 cm
B. Width circumference (of knitting): 17” / 44 cm
C. Circumference: 26” / 66 cm
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Garthenor Organic Preseli (Polwarth, Romney, Hebridean, 219 yds / 200 m – 50g)
Jewel Tone version
C1: 1 skein of Dragonfly
C2: 1 skein of Blazer
C3: 1 skein of Raspberry
C4: 1 skein of Gorse
Greens version
C1: 1 skein of Spearmint
C2: 1 skein of Holly
C3: 1 skein of Tilia
C4: 1 skein of Willow
Or fingering 4ply weight in the following amounts:
C1: 219 yds / 200 m
C2: 219 yds / 200 m
C3: 219 yds / 200 m
C4: 219 yds / 200 m
For longer cowl - double the amount of yarn needed for all colours.
Original cowl:
Claudia Hand Painted Yarns
Addiction Fingering
(Superwash Merino)
175 yards / 160 m - 50 g skein
9 colours used, 1 skein of each colour
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This cowl is knit in the round with the ends grafted together to create a seamless finish that also hides the floats and creates a double thickness.
It begins with a provisional cast-on such as a crochet cast-on method with waste yarn. The provisional cast-on in waste yarn is carefully undone to place the live stitches onto a second set of needles for grafting using the Kitchener stitch method.
The stranded colorwork is worked in stripes of different chart patterns.
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Provisional cast-on
Knitting in the round
Stranded colourwork, working 2 colours at a time
Kitchener stitch
