Bajadas

• Product description

  Bring a little summer sun into your everyday with the Bajadas shawl. This happy triangular shawl will put a smile on your face with its enjoyable rows of garter stitch and fun mosaic colorwork. Dramatic triangles and chevron shapes break through the solid-colored fabric, inviting you to channel your most joyful palette. Bound by a sleek, corded edge, Bajadas is radiant in any of Peerie’s glowing Merino solids.

  Designer: Bérangère Cailliau

  Collection: BT Summer

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• Pattern materials

  YARN

  Brooklyn Tweed Peerie — 100% American Merino Wool (210 yards/192 meters per 50 grams)

  • 5 skeins of Main Color (MC); 1 skein of Color 1 (C1); 2 skeins of Color 2 (C2)
  • Photographed in colors Muslin (MC), Marigolds (C1), and Mesa (C2)

  
  

  YARDAGE

  • 880 yards/805 meters MC; 210 yards/192 meters C1; 320 yards/293 meters C2 of fingering weight wool yarn
  • Note: You will have enough C2 yarn left over to make the 3 optional tassels for the shawl, which will require approximately 50 yards/46 meters of yarn. The skein count for C1 is exactly the listed yardage; consider adding an extra skein.

  
  

  NEEDLES

  One 32”/80 cm or longer circular needle in size needed to obtain gauge listed

  • Suggested Size: 3.5 mm (US 4)

• Pattern specs

  CONSTRUCTION

  • This shawl is worked flat from the top down with increases worked along each edge and down the center spine.
  • The solid-color stripes are worked in garter stitch; the colorwork stripes are worked in mosaic knitting.
  • Slipped stitches along both edges create a knitted cord edging, and the shawl is finished with an optional Knitted Cord Bind Off and three optional tassels, one for each corner of the shawl.

  
  

  FINISHED DIMENSIONS

  • 68"/172.5 cm wide wingspan; 29"/73.5 cm height at center line

  
  

  GAUGE

  • 23 stitches & 48 rows = 4"/10 cm in garter stitch, after blocking

  
  

  Please note: the stitch patterns used for this accessory include written as well as charted instructions.

  
  

• Techniques

  Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern:

  • Knitted Cord Tab Cast On
  • Reading Charts
  • Knitted Cord Bind Off
  • Video — Tassels
  • Blocking 101
  • Knitwear Care

• Pattern Updates

  8 April 2024: Version 1.2 (French version 1.1)

  Both the English and French versions have been updated as follows:

  The charts for Sections 6 & 8 on page 9 have been updated to reflect the 4-stitch repeat in the written instructions. The written instructions on pages 13-15 have also been updated to indicate the correct stitch repeats for Sections 6, 8, 10, and 11.

  Additionally, on page 13, the written instructions for Rows 13-20 have been updated to specify that they will be worked using C1.

  
  

  1 August 2022: Version 1.1

  On page 12, the missing instruction for Rows 11 & 12 of Section 4 has been added to read: "Repeat Rows 3 & 4. [167 stitches]"

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