Deflection Wrap Pattern by Jade Keaney

Shop/Patterns&Downloads An Epic Project Swirling with Gorgeous Colour! Shooting these photos in the graffiti’d underbelly of one of Pittsburgh’s many bridges, a middle-aged guy in dirty shoes and three-day old stubble walks past us. He takes one look at our model, overdressed amongst the broken bottles and remnants of late-night meetups, and we brace ourselves as he opens his mouth and yells… (wait for it…) “THAT’S A REALLY NICE WRAP!” Well. That’s not what we were expecting him to say… But honestly, he’s right. Because this pattern is so eye-catching that, despite all our cynical expectations, it completely deflected his attention -- so that the shawl received his unsolicited comments instead of our model. And so we yelled back, “Thanks!” as we continued on with the photoshoot, and the sun shone through the old bridge’s ironwork, and a gentle breeze blew all the tension away. Inspired by Jen Peck’s Free For All Cowl, this beautiful wrap expands on the original design in every dir