Widening Gyre

Widening Gyre is a phrase coined by the Irish poet, W B Yeats, in the opening line of his post-war apocalyptic poem, The Second Coming. A gyre is a circular motion or form and so describes this spiral scarf.

Widening Gyre follows a simple pattern that creates a stylish scarf or a dramatic structural wrap. Each row has a 1 stitch increase at the end of a right-side row and then again at the start of the wrong side row.

After 24 rows have been worked, 14 stitches are bound off at the straight side. That is the edge without the increases.