Valley Yarns 576 Knit Lace Jar Covers (Free)

Valley Yarns Knit Lace Jar Covers, are two knitted adornments that turn ordinary household jars into beautiful candle lanterns, or just a pretty place to store your needles.

Frost Flowers, featuring one of knitting’s most prized lace patterns, is worked in the round to fit a large quart jar. Garter is an exercise in simplicity, worked sideways in rows to fit any width jar, showing that even a beginner knitter can make a naturally lacy fabric with just thin yarn and larger needles.

IMPORTANT! Please use only LED flameless candles in your jars. Valley Yarns are not tested for flammability. Please do not use with open flame.

Finished Measurements: 
     Frost Flowers: stretches to 13” around and 5.5”-6” tall (to fit a 1qt jar)
     Garter: 3” tall and 8.5” around or desired width (shown on ½ pint jar)
Yarn Requirements:
     Frost Flowers: 1 skein Valley Yarns Charlemont (60% Fine Superwash Merino/20% Mulberry Silk/20% Polyamide, 100g/439yds) color Natural (about 60 yds used)
     Garter: 1 cone Valley Yarns 2/14 Alpaca Silk (80% Alpaca/20% Silk, 1736 yd/8.8 oz) color Natural (about 35 yds used)
Needles: 
     Frost Flowers: US size 5 (3.75mm) double-pointed needles or 40” circular needle for magic loop method (recommended) or size needed to get gauge
     Garter: US size 5 (3.75mm) needles
Gauge:
     Frost Flowers: about 5.5 sts = 1” in stitch pattern, slightly stretched
     Garter: about 6 sts = 1” in garter stitch 

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Pattern updated 12/13/2013. View errata here. If you purchased the PDF version, the newest version is available in your pattern library.