Pattern description from America Knits: “…an elegant curved fabric that rests comfortably and gracefully over the shoulders.”

Constructed of three squares grafted together to form a “v” shape, with an eyelet border and ruffled sawtooth edge treatment.

Pattern description from Knitting in America: “Selma chose a luxurious two-ply fingering-weight qiviut (musk-ox fiber) yarn produced in the western Canadian arctic for the Kousa Dogwood Shawl. She constructed the shawl in several stages: first, she chose a square pattern called Beeton’s Flower from Mary Walker Phillips’s book Knitting Counterpanes and knit three of them. She wove them together to create a V shape (a center diamond with a square on the two top sides) using kitchener stitch. She then added a few rows of eyelet and a curved triangular extension in a simple Madeira lace pattern to the right and left sides, crating an even larger V. Next, she added an eyelet border to the outside edge of the V, followed by a final ruffled sawtooth edge treatment. Finally, the neckline is finished with I-cord and the shawl is washed and blocked. the result is an elegant curved fabric that rests comfortably and gracefully over the shoulders. Selma named her shawl after a Korean Dogwood tree, known as the Kousa Dogwood, because the petals in the center of Beeton’s Flower counterpane reminded her of the flowers on that tree. The pattern for the shawl appears on page 179.”

Materials:

• Six 3/4oz / 25g balls (each approx 150yd/135m) of 2-ply fingering weight qiviut from Folknits
• Size 3 double-pointed needles (dpns)
• Size 3 circular needle
• Stitch markers
• Tapestry needle

Gauge: no gauge given in pattern.

No finished measurements are given in pattern.

First published in hardcover as Knitting in America (Artisan, 1996)