Contains:
- Knitting pattern for simple shawl offset by open lace border
- Charted lace pattern included
- Suitable for intermediate knitters
Materials you need at home:
- Approximately 735 m of heavy laceweight yarn (500 m of the body color and 235 m for the border). Sample was knit in YOTH Mother (100% wool)
- 4.0 mm/US 6 needles, or size needed to obtain gauge. Because of the large number of stitches, a circular works best
- 20 locking stitch markers and one distinct marker (of any kind) for marking the center
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
Folk knowledge says that every fog in August means a snowfall come winter. This shawl combines an eddying lace edging with a simple stockinette field of parallel lines, just as the whorls of summer’s morning fog might contrast with the crisp clean of a winter snow. The raised slip-stitch chain pattern provides texture, and the knitted-on border provides drama and contrast.
The lace border is both charted and written.
Skills required: increasing, decreasing, knitted-on cast-on, yarn overs, knitting on a border
Finished measurements: approximately 162.5 cm wide and 71 cm deep
Gauge: 18 stitches to 10 cm of blocked stockinette. 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.