You knit for the joy of it, for the comfort and the beauty. And for years, so many of you have shared stories about how the Half + Half Triangles Wrap has brought the joy of knitting to your needles and your lives. You’ve delighted in the incredible earthy beauty of Linen Quill and its many glorious colors. And so, for the love of knitting, we are happy to offer a new collection of bundles for this wonderful wrap!

One of the pleasures of knitting a Half + Half Triangles Wrap is the surprise of its construction (all knit stitches plus the opportunity to learn a new technique!). You cast on the full length of the wrap and shape the first triangle with short rows. Once your triangle comes to a point, you knit across the entire diagonal, picking up and knitting each stitch with its wrap.

Then onto your next color and the second triangle, which you also build up with short rows. With that triangle complete, you bind off and snuggle into your gorgeous wrap.

Our Half + Half Triangles Wrap pattern is your ticket to an easy and inventive knit, but the true impact of this project is due to one-of-a-kind Linen Quill!

Fifty percent fine highland wool, 35% alpaca, and 15% linen, Linen Quill’s complexity and beauty make it a customer favorite… Maybe it’s already yours!

It has springiness and durability from the wool, softness and drape from the alpaca, and cozy warmth from both. 

And the linen… Only 15% of the content but critical to what makes this yarn so special! Its tendency to sprout out of the strand lends a very beautiful earthy feel, while the way linen takes dye differently than animal fibers adds depth to every color.

Linen Quill has a humongous palette of over fifty colors, and from such plenty, we had a blast making sixteen new bundles, for a total of nineteen Half + Half Triangles Wrap Bundles! 

Pick your favorite (or two or three…We know more than one knitter who has completed 7 Half + Half Triangle Wraps!), and cast on for this beloved knit!

Originally designed by Jake Canton as a blanket, then updated into a Linen Quill wrap by Whitney Van Nes.

Share your progress and connect with the community by tagging your pics with #PurlSoho, #PurlSohoBusyHands, #PurlSohoHalfAndHalfTrianglesWrap, and #PurlSohoLinenQuill. We can’t wait to see what you make!

Materials

Our Half + Half Triangles Wrap Bundle comes in two sizes and 19 color combos. It includes all the yarn you’ll need to make a Big (Bigger) size wrap…

• Color A: 2 (3) skeins of Purl Soho’s Linen Quill, 50% fine highland wool, 35% alpaca and 15% linen. Each skein is 439 yards/ 100 grams; approximately 791 (1,087) yards required.
• Color B: 2 (3) skeins of Linen Quill; approximately 845 (1,160) yards required.

You’ll also need…

• US 3 (3.25 mm) 32- or 40-inch circular needles
• A stitch marker

NOTE: Our samples are the color combos Peachy Pink + Crocus Bud, Gray Denim + True Turquoise, Kiln Red + Red Poppy, Birds Egg Blue + Butterscotch Yellow, Peony Pink + Dandelion Yellow, Salt + Pepper + Stillwater Blue.

You can also create your own beautiful color combo by picking up 4 (or 6) individual Linen Quill skeins, 2 (or 3) in each color!

GAUGE

24 stitches and 48 rows = 4 inches in garter stitch

SIZES

Big (Bigger)

Unblocked Dimensions: 27½ inches wide x 32 inches long; approximately 42 inches along the fold (37¾ inches wide x 44 inches long; approximately 58 inches along the fold)

Blocked Dimensions: 31¾ x 31¾ inches; approximately 45 inches along the fold (43 x 43 inches; approximately 61 inches along the fold)

SAMPLE SIZES: The Peachy Pink + Crocus Bud and Gray Denim + True Turquoise samples are the Big size, and the Kiln Red + Red Poppy, Birds Egg Blue + Butterscotch Yellow, Peony Pink + Dandelion Yellow, and Salt + Pepper + Stillwater Blue samples are the Bigger size.

NOTES

CONSTRUCTION

You will knit the one triangle, followed by the other. All the shaping is done with short rows and there is no sewing or assembly.

STITCH MULTIPLE

You can alter the length of the wrap by casting on any number of stitches. The width dimensions will be approximately 90% of the length, and when you’re finished, the piece should block out to an approximate square.

SHORT ROWS: WRP-T (WRAP AND TURN)

Keeping yarn in back, slip next stitch purlwise from left needle to right needle. Bring yarn to front. Return slipped stitch to left needle. Turn work so wrong side is facing you.

To see this technique in action, visit our Short Row Tutorial and follow along with the wrap and turn on the knit side section (at 0:30 seconds), except do not bring the yarn to the back before you turn.

KNIT WRAPPED STITCH WITH WRAP

Keeping yarn in back, pick up the wrap with the right needle from front to back, then insert the needle into the wrapped stitch knitwise. Knit the stitch and wrap together. Find step-by-step photos of this technique under the Picking Up The Wrapped Stitch On The Knit Side section in our Short Row Tutorial!

PATTERN

TRIANGLE 1

With Color A, cast on (190) 260 stitches. We used a basic Long Tail Cast On.

Set-Up Row (right side): Knit to end of row.

Short Row 1 (wrong side): Knit to last 3 stitches, place marker (pm), k1, wrap and turn (wrp-t, see Notes).

Short Row 2 (right side): Knit to end of row.

Short Row 3: Knit to marker, remove marker, wrp-t.

Short Row 4: K1, pm, knit to end of row.

Repeat Short Rows 3 and 4 until you have wrapped every stitch except the last two, ending with Row 4.

Next Short Row (wrong side): K1, remove marker, wrp-t.

Next Short Row (right side): K1.

Next Row: K1, *knit next stitch with its wrap (see Notes), repeat from * to last stitch, k1.

Cut Color A.

TRIANGLE 2

Set-Up Row 1 (right side): With Color B, knit to end of row.

Set-Up Row 2 (wrong side): Knit to end of row.

Short Row 1 (right side): K1, wrp-t.

Short Row 2 (wrong side): K1.

Short Row 3: K1, knit next stitch with its wrap, place marker, wrp- t.

Short Row 4: Slip marker, knit to end of row.

Short Row 5: Knit to marker, remove marker, knit next stitch with its wrap, place marker, wrp-t.

Repeat Rows 4 and 5 until you have completed a wrp-t on the second to last stitch.

Repeat Row 4.

Next Row (right side): Knit to last marker, remove marker, knit next stitch with its wrap, k1.

With the wrong side facing you, bind off knitwise.

Weave in the ends and block!