This shawl is an ode to cold, calm, and white snowy days that winter gracefully give us sometimes. The shawl starts at the centre edge and is worked as a half-pi shaped shawl. Its double yarn over stitch pattern progress throughout the body of the shawl getting more scattered as you progress. The stripy lace border is then worked in German Short Rows. Short rows are really simple to work and they are almost invisible on stocking stitch. This way the border almost blends in the shawl body.
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Lace
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Clouds and rain drops does get along pretty well, am I right? Even if they might not be your best friends when they gather in the sky, I’m pretty sure you’ll love to warm your feet in them. I called the pattern Soaked to the Skin and you can find it for free on Knotions website.
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Oh man, I love to block my knits. Maybe even a little too much.
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Frogging can definitively be the best thing ever. And that’s what happened here. I found the perfect sweet proportions in my opinion for this lace border.
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Now that I turned almost all of my main colour, Fée Violette (= Violet Fairy), into a shawl body, I need to get my ideas straight on how to work the border. At first, I intended to knit a plain garter stitch border. But, a lacey leave short row border is calling me.
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I have a deep love for single yarns and speckled yarn. Why? Oh, I’m glad you asked! To keep things sweet and short, I’m mesmerised by it.
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This new shawl was an asymmetrical triangular shawl design, with lace on the inside and a huge garter stitch border in a contrasting colour. Well, it turns out that this shawl was not meant to be. As beautiful as it could be, I did not felt it was right with this yarn.
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The only thing I knit with metal needles is Estonian lace because who would turn away from sharp needles when nupps and gathered stitch are in game?
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If you could look at my WIP pile you’ll see a trend here: I’m in a huge cable and lace mood. I LOVE how they interact one with each other…
… And it’s not the end of the world. It may be painful or frustrating, but sometimes frogging is the best thing which can happen to your current WIP. As it is for me now.
Created while I was discovering some Bollywood classic movies, the Anjali shawl is a flowery yet easy lace shawl suitable for every knitters. Discover its story.