Girasole

CONSTRUCTION

• This shawl is worked circularly from the center out. The lace edging is worked back and forth and joined to the live shawl stitches as it progresses.

GAUGE

• Laceweight Version: 24 stitches & 26 rounds = 4″ over lace pattern, after blocking
• Worsted Weight Version: 16 stitches & 18 rounds = 4″ over lace pattern, after blocking 
• Note: Finished gauge will vary once shawl is blocked into circular shape. Listed gauges are a guide. Experience shows us that this pattern looks wonderful in a number of gauges and yarn weights. Experimentation is encouraged!

NEEDLES

• One 32” circular needle and one set of double-pointed needles (DPNs)* in size needed to obtain pattern gauge
• Laceweight Version suggested size: 4 mm (US 6)
• Worsted Weight suggested size: 5½ mm (US 9)

*32″ circular needle can be used instead of DPNs if using the Magic Loop method for working small circumferences in the round (e.g., the center of the shawl).

FINISHED DIMENSIONS

• Laceweight Version: 51″ [129.5 cm] diameter
• Worsted Weight Version: 72” [183 cm] diameter
• Measurements taken from relaxed fabric after blocking

Please note: the stitch patterns for this shawl are charted only.

YARDAGE

Laceweight Version:

• 1150 total yards of laceweight wool yarn

Worsted Weight Version:

• 1675 total yards of worsted weight wool yarn

YARN


Laceweight Version:

• 3 skeins Brooklyn Tweed Vale (100% American Rambouillet wool; 450 yards/50 grams)
• Photographed in Heron

Worsted Weight Version:

• 12 skeins Brooklyn Tweed Shelter (100% American Targhee-Columbia wool; 140 yards/50g)
• Photographed in Hayloft

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

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

4 April 2012: 

The written instructions for Row 6 of Chart H has been re-written for clarity. The new instructions for this row are: “Bind off 3 stitches, (you now have one stitch on R needle, and 3 edging stitches on L needle), knit 2, work Edging Join. Turn.”