Swirl Cloth by Lara Neel

Swirl Cloth

no longer available from 1 source show
Knitting
October 2010
Worsted (9 wpi) ?
4.5 stitches and 7.5 rows = 1 inch
in stockinette in the round
US 7 - 4.5 mm
12" across, but the show includes instructions for making it smaller.
English
Discontinued. This digital pattern is no longer available online.

You could make this in almost any size.

After your first four inches or so, measure your row gauge, and work backwards for the size you want. Say you want a cloth that is 10” across. Pretending that you have the same gauge as do I, you would decide that you would want to end up with 10 inches x 7.5 rounds per inch = 75 rounds across. Round up to 76 (to get a number that divides by 4) and divide that by 2 to see that you will need 38 rounds worked. That requires 19 sets of increases, so you will end up with 8 sets of 20 stitches each - or 160 stitches total.

If you want 4 rounds of garter stitch on the edge of your cloth to keep it from curling, you need only begin working in garter stitch when there are 8 sets of 16 stitches - 128 stitches total. If you are feeling sophisticated, and not working off of a cone, as I was, please use this chance to try out Fleegle’s method for No-Purl Seamless Garter Stitch In the Round.

The website that previously hosted this has dropped all of my old patterns. They are currently unavailable, but I may reissue them at another time.