Contains:
- Knitting pattern for lace shawl
- Charted and line-by-line options for the lace pattern
- Suitable for intermediate knitters
Materials you need at home:
- Approximately 715 m of fingering-weight yarn (460 m of MC, 255 m of CC), or 595 m if leaving out one section (385 m MC, 210 m CC); an additional 125 m are needed for the wider lace edging, or 105 m if leaving out one section
- 3.75 mm/US 5 needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
- Stitch markers
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
Knit from the top down, this shawl uses a pattern of increases and decrease to achieve a bat-like shape.
Knit as shown, the shawl has six sections which make it sit comfortably on your shoulders. One section can be omitted to use less yardage and have a straighter top edge.
Finished measurements: wingspan: 117 cm, depth: 56 cm; with wide lace edging, wingspan: 127 cm, depth: 63.5 cm
Gauge: 20 stitches to 10 cm in blocked stockinette
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.