Here is a ‘Pi’ shawl celebrating the fabulous Elizabeth Zimmermann’s method of constructing flat fabric. Double the stitches when you double the rounds. It makes perfect sense; a tried and tested formulae. Festival of Threads is lace knitting and it is great fun. An edge of the circular shawl is worked using larger and larger needles as you progress to the edge. This gives you the volume and floatiness and of course makes the shawl grown quicker. I used the same technique in Delilah and the very simple lacy pattern repeat in Guppy Tailed Yo! shawl. It is good to return to old friends.

pi = 3.141592653589793 on and on and on and on

What is Pi? It’s a symbol used in maths to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal point. As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern. While only a handful of digits are needed for typical calculations, Pi’s infinite nature makes it a fun challenge to memorize, and to computationally calculate more and more digits. - WIKIPEDIA

ENJOY!
Bestest of wishes
Belinda
www.belindaharrisreid.co.uk

YOU WILL NEED
2 x FINE SPARKLE or FINE GREY, 800m/100g
(FS: 65% alpaca, 20% silk, 10% cashmere, 5% stellina & FG: 70% alpaca, 20% silk, 10% cashmere)
4mm double-pointed needles (for cast-on), 4mm and 5mm circular needles (40cm), and 6mm circular needles (60cm)
Stitch markers – as many as you need to ease the working of the pattern repeats
Sewing-up needle
Blocking mat and wires/pins (for central motifs - optional)

Different coloured yarn for life-lines – I suggest, as a precautionary measure, to thread a piece of yarn through all sts after completing one pattern repeat section before moving on to next repeat. As you may know lace knitting can look like a sack of noodles on your lap until blocked. From past experience there is nothing worse than dropping sts or making a mistake and having to unravel to the beginning.

GAUGE (not essential)
20sts to 10cm on 4mm needles in stocking st

FINISHED SIZE: from centre to border-edge 88cm, diameter 176cm

ABBREVIATIONS
k: knit | p: purl | st(s): stitch(es) | Rnd: round
pm/slm: place marker, slip marker
yo: yarn over, starting at front of work pass yarn over right-hand needle from back to front anti-clockwise before working the next st. On next row work ‘yo’ as a st.
sl: slip a st without working from left to right needle
ssk: slip next st k-wise, slip following st k-wise, insert tip of left-hand needle into these 2sts (right to left) and k together as one
psso: pass slipped st over
k2tog: k 2sts together to make one st