The Ambassador

The Ambassador is the third design in my Firefly/Serenity series based on the character Inara Serra. It is a long beaded wrap with 4 distinct parts of the design: 1. Beaded and lightly cabled diamonds along the bottom, 2. Beaded lace curly-cues along the sides (simulating the veil she wears in the episode “Trash”), 3. A slipped stitch dense, lightly beaded middle section, and 4. A sideways knitted on lace top edge that corrects the differences in fabric density. Like Inara, the design is elegant, bold, and very sparkly.


The piece can be worn several ways; wrap, shawl, scarf, headscarf, or backless wrapped shirt. It is knit flat from the long bottom edge up, with the top edge knitted on sideways.

The project uses between 900-1100 of fingering weight yarn and 1,987 beads in 5 colors. I suggest using yarn in solid colors or lightly variegated/tonal. Because of the construction (sideways knitted top edge) highly variegated yarns may pool weird. Very bold colors are the most suited to Inara’s style, and the pattern provides bead suggestions to create a triadic color scheme for 7 yarn colors (red, blue, yellow, purple, green, orange, and black).