Lipstick & Wool

> Love this pattern? Every week, I send a short, chatty email about what I'm making, what I'm thinking, and what's coming next. [**Sign up for the > Truly Myrtle Mini-Mag!**][1] – it's like a letter from the friend who designed this.✨ *Lipstick and Wool is exclusively available to Wardrobe Toolbox members until 2026.* She’s not just a scarf. She’s a statement. A flash of colour and warmth you can wind, loop, or fling about your shoulders, and suddenly you feel like you’ve swiped on your bravest red lip… even if lipstick has never touched your face! Long and skinny, Lipstick & Wool is full of slipped stitches, broken up with garter slivers for rhythm and texture. And here’s the magic: only one colour per row, so she looks fancy without feeling fiddly. Her narrow rows fly by (no endless knitting marathons here), and her clever construction starts right in the centre with two neat little triangles joined together like butterfly wings before you wander off in both directions. She loves glorious skeins that shift and change, fades that glow, or a joyful parade of minis anchored with a solid. However you play it, Lipstick & Wool will give your outfit the lift it’s been waiting for. Including charts and written instructions, she’s your wardrobe’s most fabulous friend. **FINISHED MEASUREMENTS** Wingspan approx. 88"/220 cm (blocked) Depth at widest part approx. 11"/27.5 cm (blocked) **NEEDLES & NOTIONS** Size US 6/4 mm needles. 2 stitch markers, waste yarn or stitch holders and a wool needle. Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain gauge. **GAUGE** 24 sts/49 rows = 4"/10 cm in slipped stitch pattern after blocking. 1 body panel section (Chart 3 and Garter Sliver) measures approx. 5"/12.5 cm deep. **YARN** 2 skeins of The Fibre Co. Cumbria Fingering (60% Merino wool, 30% Masham wool, 10% mohair; 100g = 328 yds/300 m), in "Kirkstone" (deep blue, Colour A) and 2 balls of The Fibre Co. Transitions, (50% alpaca, 50% Peruvian Highland wool, 100g = 328 yds/ 300 m), in "Daybreak Shimmer" (fading pinks, oranges and reds, Colour B). If substituting: approx. 650 yds/600 m of sport-weight yarn in Colour A and 410 yds/375 m of sport-weight yarn in Colour B. 34-row Body Panel slipped-stitch sections use approx. 33 yds/ 30 m of Colour B: ideal for mini-skeins of fingering- or sport-weight yarn weighing approx. 10g. **SKILL LEVEL** 3/5 balls see: [www.trulymyrtle.com/all-the-balls][2] [1]: https://www.trulymyrtle.com/minimag [2]: http://www.trulymyrtle.com/blog/all-the-balls For more information, see: https://www.wardrobetoolbox.com