Cottage Wrap

This simple wrap combines two fundamentals of knitting to create a reversible, welted texture: stocking stitch and reverse stocking. It is knitted on the bias, increasing in width as you go, so you can make it any size you like and use any tension of yarn you like – it’s a great stash-buster! The pattern may look long and complicated, but it isn’t, it’s just written with detail for inexperienced knitters and people with short attention spans. The pattern repeat is long, so a chart is included to guide you and help you keep track of where you are in the pattern. You can use any yarn you like, which makes it a great stash buster (see amounts below).

Its called the cottage wrap because it’s a great thing to wrap around your shoulders on a cool night, but maybe especially at the cottage. It is a freebie, from us to you. Please enjoy this pattern as we all emerge from our nests with joy and trepidation.

Orange Cottage Wrap

• Quince & Co. Kestrel: 7 skeins
• 6mm/US10-24” circular needles (approx. 14 sts = 4”/10cm) 
• FREE Pattern

Size

• Depends on your yarn and the size you desire
• approx 82”/205cm long (from tip to tip) & 20”/50cm deep (at longest point)

Yarns

The amount of yarn you use is flexible and depends on the type of fibre you choose and the thickness of the yarn – you’ll probably need 2 scarves worth of yarn. Yarns that are knit as a looser fabric will go further, yarns knit tighter may require some extra, especially bulky to super bulky weight yarns. Use a needle size that works for your yarn. 

General Yardage Requirements

• 3sts/inch – 550m/610yds
• 3.5sts/inch – 690m/755 yds
• 4 sts/inch – 825m/905 yds
• 4.5 sts/inch – 915m/1005 yds
• 5 sts/inch – 1000m/1100 yds
• 5.5 sts/inch – 1100m/1200 yds
• 6 sts/inch – 1185m/1300 yds
• 6.5 sts/inch: 1260m/1370yds
• 7 sts/inch – 1275m/1400 yds

Red Cottage Wrap

• Handmaiden Maiden Hair: 2 skeins (colour ruby)
• 5.5mm/US9-24” circular needles (approx. 15 sts = 4”/10cm)
• FREE Pattern

Notions

• Digital Kitchen Scale
• Locking stitch markers (optional)
• Tapestry needle
• Blocking materials: wires, pins, and mats (optional but useful to really stretch the fabric)

Lastly ….

This pattern has been percolating for a long time … it was a victim of a bit of “scope-creep“, the result of some underlying issues with perfectionism (and the sundry crud that that springs from). I’d like to say thank you to my sample knitters Tessa and Adrienne, who made the wraps in the pictures and helped edit the pattern. Thank you to Erica, Noel and Rosie for just putting up with me. Thanks to Judit who helps me clear the blocks. Thanks also go to everyone whose been so patient and waited for me to finish the pattern. This pattern was far from being my dissertation and definitely not my life’s work, but it was a bit of an albatross. I’d like to raise a toast to letting go of our tethers and stretching our wings: may it be the first of many similar experiences for us all. In the words of my then eight year old nice: “You watch this girl go!”

~ Haley