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Designed by Gail Tanquary for Crystal Palace Yarns
Materials
4 - 50 gr. balls Crystal Palace
Mendocino color #520 'vineyard'
Size 8 and 9 – 36” Crystal Palace Bamboo Circular needles
3 stitch markers
Size: 16” deep, 48” wide after blocking”
Gauge: 4.5 sts/inch on size 9
Shawl is knitted from center back neck edge downward.
Yarn overs (YOs) at the beginning of the row are dropped on the following row
without knitting them.
This allows for a stretchy edge and a small picot trim.
Do not count yo as a stitch at end of row.
Instructions
Using Size 9 needle, cast on 10 sts.
1 YO, K2, yo, K2, yo, K1, place marker, K1,
yo, K2, yo, K2.
2 YO, K5, P4, K5, drop the yo made at beginning of previous row.
3 YO, (K2, yo) twice, K to 1 st before center marker, yo, K1, sl
marker, K1, yo, K to last 4 sts, (yo, K2) twice, drop the yo at end of row.
4 YO, K5, P to last 5 sts, K5, drop the yo at end of row.
Repeat rows 3 and 4 until 21 pairs of eyelets have been worked on each side of
center sts.
Continue as follows: [some edits -
7/30/12]
5 YO, (K2, yo) twice, K to 3 sts before center marker, place marker,
K1, yo, K2, remove center
Marker, K2, yo, K1, place marker, K to last 4 sts, (yo, K2) twice, drop yo at
end of row.
6 YO, K5, P to last 5 sts, K5, drop yo at end of row.
7 YO, (K2, yo) twice, K to marker, slip marker, K1, yo, K to 1 st
before next marker, yo, K1, sm, K to last 4, (yo, k2) twice, drop yo at end of
row.
Repeat rows 6 and 7 until 26 sets of eyelets have been
formed on each side of center triangle.
End by working row 2.
Change to size 8 needle K 10 rows, continuing to make
eyelets as established (5 garter ridges on the right side.
End by working a wrong-side row. Bind off using size 9 needle.
July 2012