Pine Needles Stole

I often fall asleep watching the evergreens in my yard blow about in the wind. I remember back when they were planted and I could just see their tips through my window. Back then I used to watch the stars at night. Slowly those trees have grown and grown until I can only see one or two stars through them. I used to resent the trees covering the sky as they slowly began to take over and I couldnt see any whole constellations anymore, couldnt see much sky at all anymore, then I began to like watching the trees. The shapes of those branches are firmly in my mind, so it was almost inevitable that it come out in knitting.

This pattern has both charts and line by line written instructions. It is not complicated, but the repeat is long, and the gauge is loose so it can be tricky.

Errata:
The first charts in this pattern have some errors in them: the first and last two stitches of each row should be knit, making a garter stitch border. The written is correct.