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The Color Wheel is my second Advent calendar pattern.
While it has a completely different construction from last year design, it shares the same versatility. It can be a blanket, a shawl, or why not a beautiful tapestry to hang on a wall or display on your sofa, to inspire you with colors every day?!

The Color Wheel is designed to work with a 25 mini skeins Advent Calendar and in two yarn weights, fingering and DK, and it comes in two sizes to work either with tiny 10gr or regular 20gr mini skeins. It will work greatly with your precious Advent yarn kits, but will be just amazing with any yarn, included all the tiny bits of scrappy yarns!

SHAPE
It is a circular shaped piece designed for my 2023 Advent calendar “The Color Wheel”.
The small circle could be used as a baby or lap blanket, the large circle could be used as a shawl or blanket.

SIZES AND MEASUREMENTS
Big circle uses 25x20g mini skeins of fingering or DK weight yarn and measures around 120cm/47” diameter.
Small circle uses 25x10g mini skeins of fingering or DK weight yarn and measures around 86cm/34” diameter.

The Color Wheel is designed to maximize the use of each mini skein and minimize leftovers. The 25x20 g mini skeins will make a big circle, however you can use them to knit a small circle, this option will use around half of the yarn, and you can use the rest for another colorful project.

YARN WEIGHT
Fingering (DK)

YARDAGE
fingering small, fingering large (DK small, DK large)
approximately 250, 500 (250, 500) gr or
1075, 2125 ( 575, 1125) m / 1128, 2325 (625, 1225) yds

fingering small: SnailYarn Sock 10g minis x 25 mini skeins
fingering large: SnailYarn Sock 20g minis x 25 mini skeins
DK small: SnailYarn DK Sock 10g minis x 25 mini skeins
DK large: SnailYarn DK Sock 20g minis x 25 mini skeins

NEEDLES
Fingering (DK) weight
4 mm/US6 (4,5 mm/US 7) circular needles, I suggest 60 cm/24” long, or dpns, to work the pinhole cast on and centre area.
4,5 mm/US 7 (5 mm/US 8) circular needles, I suggest 60 cm/24” long, to work the wedges.
4,5 mm/US 7 (5 mm/US 8) crochet hook, to work a provisional cast on.

GAUGE
Fingering (DK) weight
20 sts & 32 rows (14 sts & 28 rows) in 10 cm/4 inches in garter stitch, worked flat and blocked.
The gauge isn’t crucial, but differences will make a significant difference in the finished measurements and in the amount of yarn needed.

CONSTRUCTION NOTES
This is an Elizabeth Zimmermann Pi construction inspired circular shawl/blanket, but with a twist! It is first knitted from the center out in the classic Pi style, to form a small circle. Then the colored wedges will be knitted sideways, and attached to the small circle while knitting.

For the wedges you’re going to work a provisional cast on, and the stitches cast on will be later grafted to the stitches of the final row for a seamless finish.

The small circle is knitted in stockinette stitch worked in the round, while the wedges are knitted in garter stitch worked flat, so this is an all knit/no purl pattern!

The increases necessary to grow the circle circumference are formed by the gaps that form when knitting short rows, which are worked in the easiest way by simply turning the work. The increases are then refined by yarn overs knitted on the following round to close the gap.

The circle is framed by a knitted i-cord border for the neatest finish.

SPECIAL TECHNIQUES
Pinhole/Disappearing loop cast on, Crochet provisional cast on, Join pieces as you knit, Weave in ends as you knit, knitted i-cord, Grafting/Kitchener stitch