Miriam Felton - Andromeda Shawl

This top-down shawl plays with movement of stitches, having both subtle curving motion and clean decrease lines. The tessellating wave motif shifts and increases like ripples in a pond.

 

The uneven picot edging speaks of waves crashing against the shore.

Yarn Requirements: 2 skeins, Impulse of Delight Bluefaced Bliss, 100% Bluefaced Leicester wool. 375 yards per 110 gm skein. Colorways “Blue Skies” and “Lost Lake”

 

Suggested Needles: 3.5 (US 5) 24” or 30” circular or size needed to obtain gauge.

 

Gauge: 22 sts and 24 rows over 4” in pattern after blocking.

 

Finished Size: 52” across the top and 26” from neck to point.

 

Techniques Used: This pattern uses the following techniques: knit, purl, k2tog, k front and back, yo, p2tog, p3tog, placement and slipping of markers, (k1 p1 k1) in 1 st, sl1 k2tog psso, sl, ssk, psso, and a provisional cast on.