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Tilting at Windmills Shawl

Downloadable PDF, English
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$7.00
Tilting at Windmills Shawl
$7.00
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Product Details

Tilting at Windmills Shawl is knit in worsted weight yarn, which makes it a project of sincere comfort. Tilted blocks of garter stitch and lace are a kind arm around your shoulders, a child’s warm hug flung about your neck, a cozy nap in the sun.

The name evolved from the novel Don Quixote. More than four hundred years ago, Miguel Cervantes wrote that his character Don Quixote came to a plain of windmills and, imagining them to be hulking giants, exclaimed that he would slay them and take their riches. Over the centuries, the phrase “tilting (jousting) at windmills” has come to mean fighting an imaginary enemy.

To customize the Tilting at Windmills Shawl, pattern includes yarn requirements for individual 1.25 in / 3.2 cm stripes!

Techniques:

• purl through the back loop (p1tbl)

• knit two stitches together (k2tog)

• slip-slip-knit decrease (ssk)

• yarnover (yo)

• knit front and back in the same stitch (kfb)

Craft
Knitting
Designer
Jamie McCanless
Format
Downloadable PDF
Language
English
Notes
Metric size: 183 x 61 cm blocked Yarn: • Main - 389 yds / 356 m • Contrast - 166 yds / 151.5 m Gauge: 8 stitches & 16 rows garter st = 2 in
Pages
5
Skill Level
Beginner
Yarn Weight