Lantern Light Wrap

Set the darkness aglow with our Lantern Light Wrap pattern! It is illuminated by our Linen Quill Minis’ new Stone Fruit palette, bursting with juicy, sun-warmed colors. Every Mini gets to shine in this project, luminous as a paper lantern against a rich night-sky background!

You work this elegant wrap in long garter stitch columns that alternate between background and blocks of color, picking up stitches along the edge of the previous column for a satisfying no-sew join. We left our color order to chance, and we invite you to do the same by selecting each Mini at random and letting it take its naturally harmonious place among the others. The knitting is surprisingly quick with the yarn held double throughout… You’ll find yourself just floating along to the next glowing Mini!

Linen Quill’s radiant colors are naturally complex, a result of the way each fiber in the mix—Andean highland wool, alpaca, and linen—takes the dye a little differently. From golden nectarine to rosy lychee, our new Stone Fruit palette includes twenty 25-gram balls of this fingering-weight yarn.

You’ll need just one 20-color bundle to make the wrap—either new Stone Fruit or perennial favorite, Beach Walk—plus 6 full-size Linen Quill skeins: 3 skeins of each color you combine for the background. We chose Dark Denim and Stillwater Blue for the perfect midnight shade!

Pick up your palette, cast on, and fill the sky with light!

Pattern designed and written by Purl Soho designer, Gianna Mueller. See even more of Gianna’s work on her Instagram!

Story written by Andrea Lotz for Purl Soho.

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Materials

• Main Color (MC): Six 100-gram skeins Purl Soho’s Linen Quill, 50% fine highland wool, 35% alpaca, and 15% linen. Each skein of this fingering-weight yarn is 439 yards/ 100 grams. Hold a strand of each of these colors together for MC…
  • Stillwater Blue: 3 skeins; approximately 1000 total yards required.
  • Dark Denim: 3 skeins; approximately 1000 total yards required.
• Contrast Color (CC): 1 of Purl Soho’s 20-color Linen Quill Minis bundles, 50% highland wool, 35% alpaca, and 15% linen. Each bundle of this fingering-weight yarn includes 2180 yards/ 500 grams; approximately 1000 total yards required. We used the Stone Fruit palette. Hold two strands of a single color together for CC.
• US 7 (4.5 mm), 24-inch circular knitting needles
• A stitch marker

GAUGE

20 stitches and 40 rows (20 ridges) = 4 inches in garter stitch with yarn doubled (see Notes)

SIZE

Finished Dimensions: 17½ inches wide x 69½ inches long

NOTES

YARN HELD DOUBLE

Throughout this pattern, you will work with two strands held together. For Main Color (MC), hold one strand of each of the two MC colors together. For Contrast Colors (CC), hold two strands of the same CC together, pulling one strand from the inside and one strand from the outside of each ball.

RANDOM COLOR ORDER

Grab two vessels (we used paper bags) and place all 20 Contrast Colors into one bag. Now, close your eyes and randomly select one color from the bag. After using that color, place it into the second bag. Repeat this process until you have emptied the bag, then do it all again until your wrap is complete (you will end up using 14 Contrast Colors 3 times and 6 Contrast Colors 4 times). Trust the process!

GARTER RIDGE

A “garter ridge” equals two rows of garter stitch. It looks like a prominent horizontal ridge and is an easy way to count rows.

WEAVING IN ENDS AS YOU GO

To spare yourself weaving in dozens and dozens of tails, we recommend weaving them in every time you join a new color. Our video tutorial shows you how to do this, or here is a brief explanation…

To weave in ends as you go, *hold the tails of the new and old color together, bring them over the working yarn at the wrong side of the work and knit next stitch, drop tails and knit next stitch as normal, repeat from * for approximately 1 inch.

PATTERN

COLUMN 1

With Main Color (MC, see Notes, Yarn Held Double), use a basic Long Tail Cast On to cast on 12 stitches.

Placing a removable marker or piece of scrap yarn on next row to indicate wrong side, knit every row until you have 24 ridges of MC on the right side, ending with a wrong-side row.

Cut MC.

*Join Contrast Color (CC, see Notes, Random Color Order).

With CC, holding yarn double and weaving in ends as you go (see Notes), knit every row until you have 12 ridges of CC on the right side, ending with a wrong-side row.

Cut CC.

With MC and weaving in ends as you go, knit every row until you have 24 ridges of MC on the right side, ending with a wrong-side row.

Cut MC.

Repeat from * 8 more times, except do not cut MC after last row. [19 blocks; 348 garter ridges]

With right side facing you, bind off all stitches.

Cut MC.

COLUMN 2

NOTE: For help picking up stitches, please visit our Picking Up Stitches Tutorial and scroll down to the Along A Vertical Edge: Garter Stitch, Between Ridges video.

With MC, use a basic Long Tail Cast On to cast on 12 stitches, then pick up and knit 6 stitches along right selvage of first block of previous column. Be sure to start picking up between cast-on row and first garter ridge. [18 total stitches]

Set-Up Row (wrong side): K7, place marker (pm), knit to end of row.

Row 1 (right side): Knit to marker, slip marker (sm), knit 2 together (k2tog), turn work. [1 stitch decreased]

Row 2 (wrong side): Knit to end of row, slipping marker as you come to it.

Repeat Rows 1 and 2 four more times until you have 6 ridges in MC, ending with Row 2. [13 stitches remain: 11 stitches to right of marker and 2 stitches to left of marker with right side facing you]

Cut MC.

**With CC and weaving in ends as you go, knit to marker, sm, k2tog, pick up and knit 12 stitches from right selvage of previous column, beginning one ridge above where you finished picking up last time. [24 total stitches]

Beginning with Row 2, repeat Rows 1 and 2 until you have 12 ridges in CC, ending with Row 2. [13 stitches remain: 11 stitches to right of marker and 2 stitches to left of marker with right side facing you]

Cut CC.***

With MC and weaving in ends as you go, knit to marker, sm, k2tog, pick up and knit 24 stitches from right selvage of previous column, beginning one ridge above where you finished picking up last time. [36 total stitches]

Beginning with Row 2, repeat Rows 1 and 2 until you have 24 ridges in MC, ending with Row 2. [13 stitches remain: 11 stitches to right of marker and 2 stitches to left of marker with right side facing you]

Cut MC.

Repeat from ** 8 more times, then repeat from ** to *** one more time.

With MC and weaving in ends as you go, knit to marker, sm, k2tog, pick up and knit 6 stitches from right selvage of previous column, beginning one ridge above where you finished picking up last time. [18 total stitches]

Beginning with Row 2, repeat Rows 1 and 2 until you have 6 ridges in MC, ending with Row 2. [13 stitches remain: 11 stitches to right of marker and 2 stitches to left of marker with right side facing you]

With right side facing you, bind off to marker, remove marker, k2tog, bind off remaining stitch.

Cut MC.

COLUMN 3

With MC, use a basic Long Tail Cast On to cast on 12 stitches, then pick up and knit 24 stitches along right selvage of first block of previous column. Be sure to start picking up between cast-on row and first garter ridge. [36 total stitches]

Set-Up Row (wrong side): K25, pm, knit to end of row.

Row 1 (right side): Knit to marker, sm, k2tog, turn work. [1 stitch decreased]

Row 2 (wrong side): Knit to end of row, slipping marker as you come to it.

Repeat Rows 1 and 2 twenty-two more times until you have 24 ridges in MC, ending with Row 2. [13 stitches remain: 11 stitches to right of marker and 2 stitches to left of marker with right side facing you]

Cut MC.

****With CC and weaving in ends as you go, knit to marker, sm, k2tog, pick up and knit 12 stitches from right selvage of previous column, beginning one ridge above where you finished picking up last time. [24 total stitches]

Beginning with Row 2, repeat Rows 1 and 2 until you have 12 ridges in CC, ending with Row 2. [13 stitches remain: 11 stitches to right of marker and 2 stitches to left of marker with right side facing you]

Cut CC.

With MC and weaving in ends as you go, knit to marker, sm, k2tog, pick up and knit 24 stitches from right selvage of previous column, beginning one ridge above where you finished picking up last time. [36 total stitches]

Beginning with Row 2, repeat Rows 1 and 2 until you have 24 ridges in MC, ending with Row 2. [13 stitches remain: 11 stitches to right of marker and 2 stitches to left of marker with right side facing you]

Cut MC.

Repeat from **** 8 more times, except do not cut MC after last row.

With right side facing you, bind off to marker, remove marker, k2tog, bind off remaining stitch.

Cut MC.

CONTINUE

Continuing to work in Random Color Order, repeat Columns 2 and 3 two more times until you have 7 columns total.

FINISHING

Weave in remaining ends and gently wet block to finished dimensions.

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