Pattern: Terra Shawl
NEEDLE: US 10 / 6 mm
YARN: Malabrigo Merino Worsted (Azul Profundo) - 210 yds
- This shawl is knitted topdown (starts at center back and works down to the bottom edge)
- When doing the Provisional Cast-On make sure a long tail is left for grafting the 12 stitches later on.
- GARTER RIDGE PATTERN should be repeated 10 times. (total of stitches = 224)
- After finishing Garter Ridge Pattern (or even before) go back to provisional cast-on and graft the stitches (using Kitchener Stitch), this way when you finish Chart B you’re done!!!
- The 3 knit stitches edge on each side will become the hypotenuse (top) of the triangle and is done throughout the whole pattern (Garter Ridge, Chart A and Chart B).
- The center stitch marker is the bottom tip of the shawl!
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- DIMENSIONS:
Before blocking: 55” (140cm) (wingspan) x 27” (68.5cm)
After blocking: - Ãfffff.... I had to frog the grafting 2 times! To make it perfect I've decided to graft purlwise the first 3 stitches then graft knitwise the last 3.
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But if you want a larger shawl a much easier way is to increase Chart A.
IF YOU WANT A LARGER SHAWL:
Increase Garter Ridge Pattern by multiples of 22 to be able to follow Chart A later on (11 sts = one pattern repeat, so you need to increase that on both sides/halves --> 11 sts on one half of the shawl, 11 sts on the other half).
According to pattern, when you finish the Garter Ridge Pattern you should have 224 sts; if you increase it x1 you’ll have 246 sts, and if you increase it x2 you’ll end up with 268 sts.
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Yarn:
- Fisrt hank: knit up to Row 3 (9th repetition) of Garter Ridge Pattern.
- Second hank: started 2nd hank on 22nd row of Chart A.
- Third hank: started 3rd hank on 2nd pattern repeat of Chart B and knit up to 7th row of edge pattern.
- Fourth hank: just used a little bit to finish the last 3 and a half rows! (if you don’t increase the pattern 3 hanks will work just fine)
- Third hank: started 3rd hank on 2nd pattern repeat of Chart B and knit up to 7th row of edge pattern.
- Fourth hank: just used a little bit to finish the last 3 and a half rows! (if you don’t increase the pattern 3 hanks will work just fine)
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| (Chart A - 4 repeats) |
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| (unblocked) |
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B-O OPTIONS:
- Elastic Bind-Off: k1, *k1, slip 2 sts back to left needle and k2tog tbl*.
- K2tog tbl, slip stitch back to left needle.
(k2tog tbl = knit 2 together through the back loops).
- BO with a needle 2 sizes larger.
