Yésica Wrap

Craft: Knitting

The Yésica Wrap is a parade of textures and fades with Fino and Cabrito, a mohair yarn. As it is knit in garter stitch from the center out, it is not only an interesting construction but a reversible one as well!

Finished Size

15½” wide and 80” long from point to point

Yarn

Manos del Uruguay FINO (70% extrafine merino wool, 30% silk; approx. 490 yds/100 g): 1 sk of MC.

Manos del Uruguay FINO MINI-SKEINS (70% extrafine merino wool, 30% silk; 5 mini-sks, each approx. 98 yds/20 g; entire set approx. 490 yds/100 g): 2 sets.

Note: The shawl shown used almost all of the yarn in the mini-skeins.

Manos del Uruguay CABRITO (80% kid mohair, 20% polyamide; approx. 230 yds/25 g): 1 sk of transition color (TC).

Shown in:

443 Turkish Delight (MC);

Fino Mini-Skein Kit #18 Ursula (424 Gilt CC1, 429 Storm Glass CC2, 436 Porcelain CC3, 413 Rosewater CC4, and 415 Silver Tea-set CC5); and R9699 Butternut (TC)

Needles & Notions

US 6/4mm 16” and 24” circular needles and set of 5 double-pointed needles, or size needed to obtain gauge

Stitch markers

Waste yarn for stitch holder

Tapestry needle

Gauge

22 sts and 39 rows = 4”/10cm garter stitch using a single strand of Fino, blocked.

Notes

This shawl begins with a garter stitch square worked in the round. Each of the two identical sides is worked outward from the starting square.

Some rows or rounds are worked using 2 or 3 strands of yarn held together instead of a single strand.