Travel Knits: Annapolis Wrap
It’s vacation season! Could there be a better “day-off knit” than an easy striped wrap with a nautical feel? During the month of July, we’ll be focusing on travel knits, those projects that pack up neatly and work up intuitively. With the kids out of school and the pool and beach beckoning, you’ll need portable projects that are fun to knit anywhere. These simple meditative patterns will keep you engaged but won’t keep you glued to instructions. This week, it’s Annapolis, an easy wrap that’s perfect for wearing all summer. Take 30% off the pattern price in my Ravelry shop through Friday, July 22, no code required!
Stripes inspired by a road trip!
This easy striped wrap was inspired by a summer road trip I took a few years ago. I love a city with some history and in this regard, Annapolis did not disappoint. I also love boats, which is odd since I cannot swim. I like looking at boats from afar in a romantic, idealized way. I imagine myself, magically unafraid, wearing something suitably boat-y and standing on a spray soaked, wind swept deck performing necessary and heroic sailing-type tasks in an efficient, fearless way. Though I’m sailing quite a lot these days, I am neither fearless nor heroic!
Easy Nautical Stripes
The Annapolis Wrap…it’s jaunty and a little bit nautical. It’s a long triangle with easy-to-memorize shaping worked in 2-row stripes. It provides the knitter with a good long stretch of fairly mindless “boat knitting” (for in between sailing tasks), followed by an engaging lace border which is knitted on as the shawl is bound off.
A Great Stashbuster!
A fairly large wrap, Annapolis uses the specified yarn almost completely, but adapts itself to smaller or larger interpretations. Go ahead and raid that stash! Get creative with color combinations! The border can be applied to any number of stitches so your final stitch count after knitting all those nautical stripes is just not that important. Choose something soft and warm in colors you love and you’ll have a toasty wrap in no time!
I’m hoping you’ll get to knit this easy striped wrap at the beach or on the boat!
