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Proud to be a crafter: to proclaim your love of knitting to the world around you, especially the muggles, everyone needs a statement piece. This skirt works up in a variety of colors or just two of your choice. I had this idea jotted down on paper for a number of years (back before we even wrote the Minnesota 52 book) but it finally came to fruition for my Rhinebeck trip with friends in 2019.

“The Words you speak become the house you live in.” - Hafiz

All colorwork has been charted and is worked upside down or from top of the word to the bottom.

SIZES: 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Waist - 26(28-30-32-34-36-38-40)”
Hip - 36(38-40-42-44-46-48-50)”
Length - 22-1/2”

Note: Choose the skirt size based on your hip measurement; then check the waist numbers. You will be using elastic at the waist so it is fairly adjustable. Take your widest measurement 7-10” below your waist for best fit. Additionally, measure your waist and take that times 6 this is the minimum cast on number you will want to choose.

Skirt can be knit using 2-16 colors – feel free to mix and match your word stripes to suit your color preferences.

YARN: sport weight, 370 yds/338m = 4 oz/113 grams
5 (6, 6, 6) (6, 8, 8, 8) skeins / 920(1104, 1104, 1104) (1104, 1472, 1472, 1472) yds total of all colors combined.

Original prototype, sz 34” waist, was knit in Jill Draper Makes Stuff Mohonk, sport weight, 370 yds/338m = 4 oz/113 grams 100% Lamb’s wool woolen spun using 9 colors: Mourning Dove, Powder Puff, Trillium, Bone, Purple Hairstreak, Peony, Chintz Rose, Frost and Mallow and weighed 321 g/1051.

Sample 2, sz 3, 38” waist, was knit in Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sport using 8 colors: 147S True Blue Navy, 205S Regal Purple, N60S Purple Splendor, 116S Blue Boy, 153S Speckled Robin Egg, N65S Sapphire, N59S Butterfly Blue and weighed 291g/1071 yds.

NOTIONS: stitch marker, tapestry needle, 25-50” of 1” elastic band.

Tech editing and graphic layout by Jean Clement, Desert Rose Fiber Arts. Photography by Amber Lindemann. Test knitters were Charity Feit and Emily Doyon. Models were Bianca Alwali, Hannah Wilson and Heidi Lindemann.