Lucca

CONSTRUCTION

• The shawl is worked from the center out, beginning with a Circular Cast On. It uses traditional Pi Shawl construction (Elizabeth Zimmermann’s method) and is shaped through the use of concentric rings of increases. A few stitches are decreased after the Pi Increase Round if necessary to achieve the correct stitch multiple for the following chart; otherwise, no stitches are increased or decreased between the concentric rings of increases. A knitted-on edging is worked back and forth and attached to the live stitches around the shawl circumference at the end of every RS row to finish the shawl (in place of a traditional bind off).

GAUGE

Small Shawl

• 22 stitches & 32 rows = 4″ in stockinette stitch, after blocking
• One 12-stitch repeat from Chart B or C measures approximately 2¼” wide

Large Shawl

• 18 stitches & 22 rows = 4″ in stockinette stitch, after blocking
• One 12-stitch repeat from Chart B or C measures approximately 2¾” wide

Note: Finished width of repeat will vary once shawl is blocked into circular shape.

NEEDLES

• One each 16″ and 32″ circular needles and one set of double-pointed needles (DPNs)* in size needed to obtain gauge listed
• Small Shawl suggested size: 3 mm (US 2½)
• Large Shawl suggested size: 4½ mm (US 7)

FINISHED DIMENSIONS

• Small Shawl: 44″ [112 cm] diameter (including edging)
• Large Shawl: 63½” [161.5 cm] diameter (including edging)
• Measurements taken from relaxed fabric after blocking.

Please note: the stitch patterns in this garment are charted only.

YARDAGE

• 1115 (1555) total yards of laceweight wool yarn

YARN

• 3 (4) skeins of Brooklyn Tweed Vale (100% American Rambouillet wool; 450 yards/50 grams)
• Large shawl photographed in color Sashiko

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

• Circular Cast On
• Crocheted Provisional Cast On
• Kitchener Stitch (Grafting)

28 January 2016: Version 1.1

On page 10, Chart B, Round 25 has been revised to:

Knit 2, [YO, SSK] twice, knit 1, [k2tog, YO] twice, knit 1.

(FYI, version 1.0 of the pattern can be knit as charted. This v1.1 revision removes the issue of having two yarn overs next to one another at the end of round 24 and the beginning of round 25 on Chart B.)