Luckily, I have today off work – so I was able to finish the wrap “on the weekend.” I must say, I have a couple gripes about the pattern. First, I decided to use the same yarn the pattern called for – Nashua Creative Focus Worsted. It called for 6 balls but being cautious, I ordered 7. Well, as it turns out, I almost used 2. To be fair, I skimped on the flowers – made 3 instead of 4. I might have had to break into a 3rd ball for the 4th flower. Anyway, moving on… Gripe #2: There were no instructions on how to make the flower. It basically said, knit a strip like this, then attach it like in the picture. Wow, thanks for the help. I played with the strip for a bit and think I figured it out. Here’s what I did:

The trick was that the strip needed to be rolled up, right side out, then the fancy edge gets folded over the plain edge. This makes the plain edge the center of the flower and the fancy edge, the petals.

The funny thing is that even though they turned out nicely, I really don’t like the flowers (big surprise there) so I think I’ll remove them. I think the wrap will still look nice with no embellishments. Notice how huge and lush the flowers in the magazine are – my seem tiny and inconsequential compared to the rest of the garment. Here is the final product:

Now that this is done, I only have a short list of 4 or 5 other things to work on (before christmas!).