When working on wraps, shawls or any other garment design, I don’t design ordinary. I design statement pieces.
Golden in the Sunlight Wrap
My mind is drawn to the unique, the unusual and I am happiest when my wardrobe reflects this.
The idea for this wrap rattled around in my head for quite some time, before it came to life.
How to do leaf layers, without the need to sew them into place, did take a bit for my poor brain to nut out!
I wanted to combine a reasonably simple stitch combo and turn it into something unique and interesting. I hope I have achieved this.
I have labelled this beauty as high end, intermediate. Simple stitches create the main body of the wrap, but the ability to think outside the square, using the hook differently to the normal, is required.
I used an amazing hand dyed yarn for this design from Knit or Dye. This is an Australian Indie Dyer and the yarn is just lovely. I do recommend it.
Finding a name for designs can be a challenge at times, but for this design it was simple.
My beautiful daughter wrote the poem pictured on this page. She was aged around 9 or 10 years. For years I had a coffee table that I had painted with autumn trees. I spent hours with paint brush in hand, writing the whole poem around the edge of the table. It stuck firmly in my mind from this experience and matched this lovely yarn and design perfectly.
The poem’s title: Golden in the Sunlight ,seemed the perfect name for this wrap. The pattern is available on Ravelry, Etsy and my webpage.
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Golden in the Sunlight by Chloe Stapleton