Ethereal Pattern

Materials:

•  1 skein Misti Alpaca Lace Solid in Ivory - Lace 2-ply 100% Alpaca - 437 yds.
• Circular Knitting needle 29" (or longer) size 3.5mm - US size 4

Notes:

• The shawl is knit straight starting from neck to bottom and side edges. The circular needles are used to easily hold a large number of stitches. 
• The border (not shown in any chart) is made of two stitches on either end worked in garter stitch throughout.
• All wrong side (even number) rows are purled. Wrong side rows are not shown on the charts.
• Gauge is unimportant - use larger needles if a more open, lacy look is desired.  

Instructions:

• Cast on 5 stitches and work 2 rows in garter st.
• On the next RS row (1st row on the main chart):
  
• k2(border),yo, k1, yo, k2(border)
• Keep working following the main chart which shows half of the pattern until the center stitch, repeating rows 29-41, adding a motif at each end and two at each side of the center stitch, for 5 times, or until desired length or number of repeats. Remember to work the 2 border stitches on each end in garter st.   

Main Chart: 

     



 Border:

• Starting on row 29 of 5th repeat (or your final repeat) work the Border+Edge chart once. The chart shows one border and edge motif which are repeated all around. Also the center stitch is not shown in this chart. Remember to work the 2 border stitches on each end in garter st.

 Border+Edge chart:

 
Finish:

• Bind off :
•  k1, put the stitch back on left needle, k2tog. Repeat until all stitches are bound off.
• Block.

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Ethereal triangular shawl

After working on several experiments on designing a triangular shawl or wrap, here's the one that I actually finished (unlike the others that were frogged..). There were several stages in the middle when I was tempted to give up on this one too and send it on to hibernation. But, after several pattern enhancements, when I got bored in the middle, and for whatever other reasons (nothing to do when it's snowing and bitterly cold outside, late nights staying up with a middle schooler doing homework, excuse to avoid exercise of any kind now that the marathon is over.....) this made it to the finish line. Here it is:

The pattern for this will be made tech ready (after I figure out what I meant to say in the scrawled bits around the hand-drawn charts from 3 months ago) and available here.....soon....