Batik Swirl Wrap (and a little giveaway)

and it’s perfect for lazy crafters like me who cannot bear sewing in  ALLLLLLL the ends.

Batik Whirl is a yarn-cake of loveliness.

Stylecraft’s Batik Yarn has been around for a little while now and I’m a really big fan, I have to say. I recently designed a shawl for Inside Crochet Magazine using the Batik solids range and I enjoyed working with it – the yarn has a nice bounce to it and the stitch definition is great.

The next release was the Batik Elements range. A collection with a different range of shades within a ball, designed to work alongside the Solids. Again, the same quality yarn with the same feel and effect. With this, I designed my Learn to Knit Shawl.

And now there’s the Swirl…. it’s a big, 200g cake with up to five different colours, which are repeated and at the mo, there are six different colour ways. I chose Purple Mist – a collection of greys and purples and different to any of my other shawls, scarves or wraps.

(Because let’s face it,  I’ve hardly got any …)

I designed this to be easy (cos I don’t do difficult) but also to be the kind of project you can sit and make in the evenings, whilst watching your favourite thing on the telly-box.

I made mine with two swirls (400g), but you could make a narrower version with just one – instructions are given for both.

You will need:

Chart showing rows 6 – 9:

Abbreviations:

Stitch(es) st(s)

Chain ch

Double Crochet dc

ch 79 (wide version) or 40 (narrower version)

Row 1: beginning in 4th ch from hook, make 1dc in each st across, turn.

Rows 2 – 6: 3ch (counts as dc here and throughout), beginning in 5th ch from hook, 1dc in each st across, turn.

Row 7: 3ch, 3dc in 6th st from hook, sk 2 sts, *3dc in next st, sk 2 sts; repeat from *, until 2 sts left, sk 1 st, 1dc in last st, turn.

Row 8: 3ch, 1dc in space before first treble cluster, 3dc in each space between clusters, 1dc in space after last cluster, 1dc in last st.

Row 9: 3ch, 3dc in each space between clusters, 1dc in last st.

Rows 10 – 135: (approx): repeat rows 8 and 9 alternately.

Rows 136 – 140: repeat rows 2 – 6.

Fasten off, weave in ends.

I just love this wrap! It’s very soft and with the added wool content, it’s really warm, too. Perfect as a chunky scarf to keep out the chills when I’m out and about, or as a wrap-blanket (a wraplet?) to snuggle up with on those draughty evenings on the sofa.
Perfect.

If you’d like to win a cake of the very lovely Batik Swirl in Purple Mist, then simply enter the giveaway below:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I’ll draw it on Thursday 25th Jan 2018. Open worldwide.

Hope you like the pattern and good luck in the giveaway!

Sarah xxx