The Elsa Hardt Shawl

This shawl is worked with a classic top down construction technique. It starts from a small garter stitch strip of knitting. The shawl is charted. It’s designed to use one skein of a solid, or semi-solid yarn. Straightforward stitch patterns and wrong side rest rows make this an intermediate lace knitter’s design. To increase the size, either substitute a heavier yarn or work additional repeats of Charts 2, 3 and 4. The shawl is finished with a wide contrasting border which ends in a feminine scalloped edging.

Yarn: 1 skein of Painted Fleece lace weight, in colour grey: 60% Seacell, 40% Silk, approximately 700 yds (640 m) to 4 oz (115 g). Note: This yarn base is available from several hand dyers. More suppliers can be located by searching Ravelry’s yarn database for Lace / 2ply weight yarns composed of 2 fibre types. Choose other and silk in the fibre type boxes.

Needles:

3 US (3.25 mm) circular 32 inch (80 cm) length.