**This post contains affiliate links. Any link marked with an * may give me a reward or commission if you visit and/or purchase something using that link, at no additional cost to you! And, if you do purchase from my affiliate links, thank you for helping to keep rent paid!** So I finally have my first knit skirt pattern! It's taken much longer then I'd have thought to bring the Buttoned Wrap Skirt pattern to life, but it's finally here (and huge thanks to my eternally patient pattern testers! 💙)
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| Photography: Stephanie Wallace |
This wrap skirt is designed to be the balance between the beautiful lines of lightweight summer skirts and the warmer knitwear that’s required during a cold winter. It also adds buttons in addition to a tie – so, if you’re ever caught out on a windy day, there’s much less risk of a ‘wardrobe malfunction!’
This wrap skirt is knit flat from the top down, with the top hem picked up from the I-cord tie. Yarn overs on the front edge become buttonholes for buttons at the front (and I had such fun picking buttons!) The ties thread through yarn overs near the top hem, and the eyelet edging at the front edge and bottom hem keep the pattern from becoming completely boring.
It's sized for 11 sizes, to fit a 24 to 66 inch waist (and given that's it's a wrap skirt, there's lots of wiggle room between sizes, too) Sample is shown to fit a 31 inch waist.
The sample is shown in Olive & Two Ewe's Tolkien yarn, a blend of 50% Superwash Merino Wool and 50% cotton in the colourway "Wisdom". It needs between 710 to 2280 yards (or 649 to 2085 metres) of fingering-weight yarn.
It's knit on 3 mm (US 2) *circular needles, with optional *double-pointed needles for the I-cord. (You don't, technically speaking, need the double pointed needles, but I found it -so- much easier working the I-cord on those then having to shift the cord of the circular set each time! You could also use an I-cord crank machine if you have one, as well, because there's a lot of I-cord for this pattern!)
This pattern is written only, there's no charts to follow -- and, like all my self-published patterns, there's also has a large-print version that is compatible with screen-reading technology.
So, yeah, many new patterns this week! I hope you enjoy the skirt, and feel free to show off your WIPs or or even what yarn you're considering in the Discord so we can all see your awesome things!
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