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CONSTRUCTION

• Shawl is worked in the round from the center out. The lace edging is worked back and forth and attached to the live shawl stitches at the end of every WS row.

GAUGE

• 18 stitches & 28 rounds = 4″ in Chart B, after blocking
• 23 stitches & 32 rounds = 4″ in Chart C, after blocking

NEEDLES

• One set of double-pointed needles (DPNs), and one each 32″ and 60″ circular needles in sizes needed to obtain gauges listed
• Suggested Size: 4 mm (US 6)

FINISHED DIMENSIONS

• 53½” diameter; measurement taken from relaxed fabric after blocking

Please note: the stitch patterns in this shawl can be knit with either charted or written instructions.

YARN

• 7 skeins of Brooklyn Tweed Loft (100% American Targhee-Columbia wool; 275 yards/50 grams)
• Photographed in color Fossil

YARDAGE

• 1840 yards of fingering weight wool yarn

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

• Provisional Cast On (crocheted directly onto knitting needle)
• Kitchener Stitch (Grafting)

Current Pattern: v2.0

20 July 2015: 

Version 2.0 On Page 6, under Attach lace Edging, the beginning of the the third paragraph as been corrected to read: “With working yarn, knit to end. Work Row 1 of Edging Chart (a WS row), or work from written instructions as given below, joining edging to body of shawl at the end of every WS row by purling the last stitch of edging together with the next live stitch from the body of the shawl. On RS rows, always slip the first stitch purlwise with yarn in back.”