Contains:
- Knitting pattern for textured garter basket-weave shawl in multiple colors
- Suitable for advanced beginners
Materials you need at home:
- Approximately 625 m of worsted weight yarn for the small size (185 m of color 1, 165 m of color 2, 230 m of color 3, and 45 m of an accent color) and 880 m for the large (265 m of color 1, 245 m of color 2, and 370 m of color 3). Samples were knit in Cascade 220 (wool), Noro Silk Garden (mohair/silk/wool), and Miss Babs Heartland (merino wool)
- 4.5 mm/US 7 needles, or size needed to obtain gauge. A circular with an 80 cm or longer cable will be best one you have a large number of stitches on the needles
- Needles a size or two larger than your gauge needles, for binding off
- Stitch marker
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
This cozy worsted–weight shawl is knit in a basket-weave stitch with several size and color options. It is worked top-down from the center outward in a shallow V.
Skills required: increasing by knitting into the front and the back of a stitch, backwards-loop cast-on, slipping stitches
Sizes: small (152.5 cm across and 54 cm deep after blocking) and large (183 cm across and 61 cm deep after blocking)
Gauge: 17 stitches to 10 cm of garter basket-weave stitch. Gauge is not critical but will affect the finished size and the meterage required
Note: Though conversions to the metric system have been made on this page for your convenience, the pattern itself uses American measurements.
Laura Aylor
If ‘knitting designer’ had been one of the job choices for those aptitude tests they give you in high school, I wouldn’t have spent so many years trying to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. My best subject in high school was math; my best classes in college were logic, drawing, and a commercial art class. After careers in computer programming/analysis and child-rearing, knit design snuck up on me, but I think it’s the perfect use of my odd skill set! I love every step of the process, from figuring out how to actually make what I’ve envisioned to putting the finishing touches on a pattern, not to mention all the knitting that comes in between!
I also love reading and hiking and spending time on Brier Island in Nova Scotia every summer.