Girasole
Pattern Specs
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.
Pattern Materials
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
Techniques
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)
Errata
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.”

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