Seasons and celebrationsCandy cane stripes
Knitting colorwork · 24 x 32 rectangle · 3 colors
Red and white candy cane stripes between green bands of little stars, for Christmas.
It opens as a copy of your own. The sample stays as it is.
What it takes
| Color | Stitches |
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| Dark green | 344 |
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| White | 280 |
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| Crimson | 144 |
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| In total | 768 |
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Stranded colorwork
| Most colors in a row | 2 (row 4) |
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| Longest float | 5 stitches, about 2.3 cm (row 5) |
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Two colors a row at most and no float over 2.5 cm: it can be stranded as charted.
Finished size
| 22 stitches and 28 rows to 10 cm | 10.9 cm x 11.4 cm |
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Worked out from the gauge above. Blocking can stretch it a little.
