Feather and Fan Wrap

Remember at Shepherd's Harvest I purchased a skein of yarn? In case you don't remember, the yarn is Nako lace weight in the colourway #412 with 550 m or 600 yds. It is a wool, alpaca and acrylic blend but, of course, the colours are what spoke to me.

What's not to like about a dark blue, teal, rust and cooper combination

I am using a feather and fan pattern to create a wrap with this single skein. The wrap I settled on has no special edging at the sides or cast-on and bind off. Here's the pattern I am using called Feather and Fan Short Scarf by Kelly Faller of Firefly Knits. It is simple, a very easy four row lace repeat pattern that from my POV carries a certain punch. The needle size is very big, U.S. 10 1/2 or 6.5 mm. It is the yarn that does all the talking though. And rather than stopping at a set length suggested by the pattern, it will be knit using up all the yarn.

So far I've knit on it for about 5 hours and this is where I am, approximately one-third of the way through the skein by weight.

It is just hanging out on the concrete wall next to my home on the mountain. For now it looks a bit frumpy but once blocked the feather and fan pattern will really show up.

This is my Knit Night and travel knitting project for now because it is so easy to memorize those four rows and to fix mistakes. (Yes, if I don't pay attention stitches are either dropped or knit together. To knit is to tink!)

You won't see this again until it is complete, but this $9 worth of yarn will by then have given me a lot to knit.

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