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Hiedra Triangle Wrap

It is October, my most preferred month of the year. Here where I live, October means, chestnuts, walnuts, edible mushrooms, the smell of leaves decaying in the forest and colours. Many many colours! I had to make something inspired by what we see all around us and so here it is: the Hiedra Triangle Wrap. Hiedra is Spanish for Ivy, the last flowering plant to nourish our bees. Although Ivy is not always changing colours, it does belong to autumn. In our forest, Ivy is now happily covering up the ground, making our search for mushrooms rather a challenge! ;-) The wrap is worked as a mesh with added surface crocheting to obtain the woven colour effects. It is a very simple technique to obtain interesting colour results and is explained in the special stitches section as well as with a photo tutorial at the end of the pattern. How long you make this wrap is up to you. I used this pattern as a stash buster of leftover yarns, starting off with gradients of yellows, via bei