Detailed Guide for Knitting a Laceweight Shawl with YuliaAV's Design and Techniques

Designed by YuliaAV Yarn Approximately 550 meters/ 600 yards of laceweight yarn.

Needles

Circular US 4 (3.5 mm) 32'

Tools

A blunt tapestry needle to weave in ends of yarn, T-pins for blocking, markers.

Dimensions

Width -23" / 60cm Length -65"/165 cm Increasing or decreasing number of repeats can adjust the length of your shawl. All dimensions can be adjusted by using the different weight of yarn or needle size.

Beginning of work - pointed edge

Loosely cast on 8 stitches. Loose cast on is recommended for easy pick up of 8 stitches from this side of work. peat rows 3 to 18 seven more times for a total of eight points

Edge 1 chart

The starting ribbon is ready after you finish 8 points (8 repeats). There are 9 sts on the needle. Secure the sts on the needle so they do not slip off. Using the second needle, pick up 8 sts from the short side of the pointed edge. Place a marker. When you are picking up sts, insert the needle to the very first loop of the edge towards you as if to purl. Do not knit the sts, just keep them on the needle. Make sure you pick up the sts starting from the pointed side of the edge towards the flat side as shown on the picture below (from point 1 to point 2):

After that, using the same needle pick up 64 sts from the flat side of the pointed edge. There are 81 sts in total on your needles. The working yarn is between the 9th and 1oth sts and your knitting looks like that:

There are 81 stitches on your needle: 9 secured sts from the last row of pointed edge (highlighted with red lines) 8 picked up sts from the short side of pointed edge (highlighted with green arrow and lines) 64 picked up sts from the long flat side of pointed edge (highlighted with yellow arrows). Turn your knitting so you can Knit Through the Back Loop (KTBL) all the picked up sts (9 secured sts remain the same as they are). KTBL 64 sts, K8. Your knitting looks like that:

Shawl body

Work on the main chart. Make desired number of repeats (rows 121-231, marked with the thicker line on the chart ). Finish with row 354.

Finishing pointed edge

There are 83 sts on the needle. Do not bind them off.

Knit the finishing border, using the Edge 2 chart as explained (similar to short rows): - Knit a row according to the chart. - Turn the work. - Move the yarn to the back. - Slip the first st purlwise. - Knit the row across. Continue in this manner knitting rows 3 to 18 six more times and rows 19 to 33 one more time for a total of eight points. Do not knit the last even row of the eighth point (row 34).

Turn the work after the last st of every odd row. Slip the first st of every even row purlwise, knit across the row.

Edge 2 chart

After row 17 (note that row 18 is not shown in the picture) - the top right corner looks like that. Lifeline is showing the beginning of the top finishing border and is used to make the explanation more clear. You do not need to put a lifeline.

Three repeats are done. After you finish working on the chart (last row of the edge is row 33, do not knit row 34) there are 10 sts on your left needle and 9 sts on your right needle, the yarn is between them as shown on the picture. The top left corner is ready for grafting.

Grafting:

Slide the left needle into the first stitch of the right needle and move that stitch from the right needle to the left one. 1. K3Tog 2. Slide the left needle into the first two stitches of the right needle and move both of them from the right needle to the left one. Repeat steps 1 & 2 until you have 1 st left. Cut enough yarn to weave in the ends, pull it through the last st and tighten it up. You can use a kitchener graft as an option.

Finishing

Weave in the ends and wet block the shawl.

Legend

Knit (Even row - knit) SSK (Even row - knit) K2Tog (Even row - knit) K3Tog (Even row - knit) Yarn Over (Even row - knit) X There are four options for this stitch, choose only one: 1- Yarn Over (Even row - knit the YO strand, make a new YO, K2Tog) 2- Make a nupp 3- Place a bead 4- Yarn Over (Even row - knit) Example with detailed chart for a single st for the first option: The Clue chart (odd rows only): Detailed chart (both even and odd rows):

Example with detailed chart for a samovar-element (flower) for the first option: The Clue chart (odd rows only): Detailed chart (both even and odd rows):