Hello my fellow knitters! My favorite shawls to knit are still symmetrical shawls, and it's quite obvious if you look at my ever-growing collection of them. Big, small, lacy, or made with bulky yarn, there's just something about knitting regular geometrical shapes that is so calming to the eyes and mind. This multicolored, lace-edged design is a simple and quick piece to make through and through. One technique that might be new to some is knitting five stitches together, which I am sure you'll master once you read the method and try it. It is mainly used in the edge of the shawlette where the pattern is composed of many yarn overs with five stitches knit together between each eyelet group, which results in a very beautiful wavy edges. As for the main body, it is just garter pattern for the most part, with increasing stitches done by twisting the yarn-overs in order not to create eyelets. If you don't want to bother with that, there is an easier alternative which is just making an ordinary stitch increase. I chose a woolly yarn that was left from a form my Tiny Waves Shawl, but you can pick up any other yarn that matches the gauge. I wish you a lovely time making this shawlette, that you can put on your shoulder and around your neck when out on cool nights.
Overview:
- Skill level: Intermediate.
- Instructions style: written pattern + chart.
- Yarn weight: #4/ medium/ worsted.
- Available sizes: one size (see detailed measurements below).
- Size customization: you can make the size bigger by repeating the garter pattern more times than mentioned in the instructions, and get an increase of eight (or a multiple of eight) stitches on each side of the center stitch of the shawlette.
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Materials:
- Yarn: Daiso Air Blend, 46% acrylic, 37% polyester, 10% nylon, 7% wool, 1.05 oz (30 g), 109.36 yards (100 m), in the color Grapes "AR5": 3 skeins.
- Circular knitting needles, 32" (80 cm) long, size US 10 (6 mm).
- Tapestry needle.
- Ring stitch markers.
Measurements: width = 22" (56 cm), length = 46.5" (118 cm), approx.
Yardage: 312- 317 yards (285- 290 m), approx.
Gauge: 15 sts and 26 rows = 4" x 4" (10 cm x 10 cm) in garter stitch.
- st: stitch.
- sts: stitches.
- k: knit.
- p: purl.
- yo: yarn over.
- m1L: make one stitch increase left-wise.
- m1R: make one stitch increase right-wise.
- k5togtbl: knit five stitches together through back loops. Or, slip stitch knit-wise four times, knit one stitch, then pass the four stitches over the knitted one.
- rsm: ring stitch marker.
Instructions:
Cast on 3 sts, knit 7 rows, turn work 90 degrees clockwise, pick up 1 st out of each purl row side (3 sts in total), turn work 90 degrees clockwise again, pick up 3 sts from bottom. (9 sts)
You can also watch this video tutorial to learn how to do this type of cast on:
Knit one row. Put one rsm before and one after the middle st. This is the center st. Work garter pattern as follows:
Row 1 (right side): k 3, m1L, k to center st, m1R, k 1 (center st), m1R, k to last 3 sts, m1L, k 3.
Row 2: k all sts.
Repeat rows 1 and 2 until you have 92 sts on each side of the center st and ending with row 1.
Work the last rows pattern as follows:
Last rows pattern:
Row 3: k 3, p to center st, k 1, p to last 3 sts, k 3.
Row 4: k 3, m1L, *(k 1, yo) twice, k5togtbl, yo, k 1, yo*, repeat between ** to one st before center st, k 1, m1R, k 1 (center st), m1L, repeat between ** to last four sts, k 1, m1R, k 3.
Row 5: repeat row three.
Repeat rows 1 and 2 twice, row 1 once, row 3 once, then work as follows:
Row 6: k 3, m1L, k 4, *(k 1, yo) twice, k5togtbl, yo, k 1, yo*, repeat between ** to five sts before center st, k 5, m1R, k 1 (center st), m1L, k 4, repeat between ** to last eight sts, k 5, m1R, k 3.
Repeat row 5 once, rows 1 and 2 twice, row 1 once, rows 3 to 5 once, then cast off all sts in a stretchy method. You can watch my tutorial video for the stretchy bind off method here:
Lastly, feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions or find something confusing in the pattern.
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