Westknits patterns are all about making them your own, so this year’s Yarn A Long theme, Knit Your Own Adventure, embraces color customizations and design choices, resulting in a new shawl you are bound to love.

Gather two colors of fingering weight yarn to knit this top-down lacey shawl. The first color features a textured basketweave pattern framed with I-cord edges. The basketweave motif increases in size to shape the semi-circular shawl. Use a color pop or splashy speckled yarn for the smocked border with crisp twisted stitches. Large yarn overs and short rows complete the shawl, resulting in an exaggerated holey effect. A final picot bind off mimics bouquets of flowers blooming from the lacey border. The textures of this shawl are a delight to knit, especially with a soft and silky yarn like Qing Fibre Yak Singles. The colors of this yarn are dyed on a light grey base adding a shadowy depth and dimension to each stitch.

Size
One Size

Finished Measurements
49″ / 124cm wingspan length, 23″ / 58cm from CO to BO edge measured along the center of the shawl. Measurements taken after blocking.

Yarn
Fingering weight

Yardage
Color A - 400yds / 366m
Color B - 460yds / 421m

You can use a strand of lace weight mohair silk like West Wool Glowhair for the picot bind off of the shawl. This fluffy fiber is optional if you want to add an adventurous mohair finish to the border. The yardage recommendation above represent all the required yards/meters needed to complete
the shawl including the bind off; bind off is approximately 90yds / 82m.

Shown in
Qing Fibre Yak Singles (65% Merino Wool, 20% Silk, 15% Yak; 520yds / 480m per 120g skein)

Green sample
Color A - Sea Mist
Color B - Driftglass

Purple sample
Color A - Dark Amethyst
Color B - Spell

Needles
US 4 / 3.5mm circular in 40″ / 100cm length or size needed to obtain gauge

Notions
Tapestry needle

Gauge
22 sts & 32 rows = 4″ / 10cm in Large Basketweave pattern after blocking

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