Hyssop Shawl

2024: Newly updated for Peace Fleece Worsted and now available as a single pattern. The method of knitting the border in this version of the shawl is slightly different from the original published in my book To The Point: The Knitted Triangle.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

63” {160 cm} wingspan and 27” {68.5 cm} center depth

YARN

Peace Fleece Worsted (75% Navajo Rambouillet & Domestic Fine Wool/25% Mohair, approx. 200 yds {183 m} per 4 oz {113g} skein)

3 skeins in Zarya Fog

or 567 yd {519 m} worsted- or Aran-weight wool

NEEDLES

One 32” {80 cm} or longer circular needle in size US 10 {6 mm}

or size to obtain gauge

NOTIONS

3 stitch markers Tapestry needle

GAUGE

13 sts and 22 rows = 4” {10 cm} in stitch pattern, after blocking.

CONSTRUCTION NOTES

Shawl is knit flat from the bottom up, increasing at each side edge to wide top edge, then stitches are picked up along side edges, and border is worked in the round in garter stitch.