Across the miles
This delicate lace crescent shawl is worked top down, beginning with a garter tab and a stockinette section, followed by lace patterning. Shaping and patterning occur only on right side rows, so it’s a relaxing knit. Seed beads are added in the border, but they are optional!
The pattern is both written and charted and has been tech edited.
Across the miles is dedicated with affection to my dear friend Deb Breeland Goldberryknits. Deb and I have been “virtual” friends ever since our designs were out together in the same issue of Knotions quite some years ago.
At the end of 2021, my husband was diagnosed with a serious medical condition and had to undergo various tests and then a major surgery in January 2022; it was a time of much anxiety and worry for our family. On our return from hospital, I was touched to find a package from Deb which had travelled halfway across the world. It contained a simple, heartfelt note and a skein of silk laceweight yarn - the yarn I used to knit this shawl.
The pattern is also a grateful tribute to the support and friendship that I’ve received (and continue to receive!) from friends all over the globe, both in my own country and in distant lands.
So, I put heart motifs into the shawl to symbolise true friendship. I stylized them so that they aren’t too obvious! I put small flowers in between the hearts, and then I added cluster stitches that look like small knots – these represent the difficulties and obstacles that we all face in life from time to time. For the border that ends it all, I chose a simple, flowing lace; it represents the beauty of genuine friendship which perseveres through everything. Knitting it feels as natural as slipping into an old, favourite chair - it’s the same comfortable feeling you get when you meet an old friend.
Hope you get to feel the sentiment if you knit this shawl!
Skill level: Intermediate.
Yarn: Knit Picks Luminance; 100% silk; 439yds/401.4m/50g; in color Reflection: one skein.
Skein weighed 51.6g, of which 49.4g (434yds/396m) was used.
You may use fingering/light fingering yarn weight with a suitable needle size; shawl size and yardage will vary. Please see testers’ project pages for shawls knitted in fingering and light fingering weight yarn.
Needles & notions: 2.75mm (US 2) and 3mm circular needles (32” or longer); locking and ring-type stitch markers, tapestry needle, 0.7mm crochet hook (or needle and floss) for placing beads, 561 seed beads, 8/0 size (optional).
Gauge: 22 sts/34 rows = 4” in stockinette with smaller needles after blocking. Adjust needle size to obtain gauge; gauge is not critical but will affect yardage and finished size.
Finished size: 66” (168 cm) along top edge, 15” (38 cm) height at center, 130” (330 cm) along bottom edge, after blocking
The pattern is both written and charted and has been tech edited.
Across the miles is dedicated with affection to my dear friend Deb Breeland Goldberryknits. Deb and I have been “virtual” friends ever since our designs were out together in the same issue of Knotions quite some years ago.
At the end of 2021, my husband was diagnosed with a serious medical condition and had to undergo various tests and then a major surgery in January 2022; it was a time of much anxiety and worry for our family. On our return from hospital, I was touched to find a package from Deb which had travelled halfway across the world. It contained a simple, heartfelt note and a skein of silk laceweight yarn - the yarn I used to knit this shawl.
The pattern is also a grateful tribute to the support and friendship that I’ve received (and continue to receive!) from friends all over the globe, both in my own country and in distant lands.
So, I put heart motifs into the shawl to symbolise true friendship. I stylized them so that they aren’t too obvious! I put small flowers in between the hearts, and then I added cluster stitches that look like small knots – these represent the difficulties and obstacles that we all face in life from time to time. For the border that ends it all, I chose a simple, flowing lace; it represents the beauty of genuine friendship which perseveres through everything. Knitting it feels as natural as slipping into an old, favourite chair - it’s the same comfortable feeling you get when you meet an old friend.
Hope you get to feel the sentiment if you knit this shawl!
Skill level: Intermediate.
Yarn: Knit Picks Luminance; 100% silk; 439yds/401.4m/50g; in color Reflection: one skein.
Skein weighed 51.6g, of which 49.4g (434yds/396m) was used.
You may use fingering/light fingering yarn weight with a suitable needle size; shawl size and yardage will vary. Please see testers’ project pages for shawls knitted in fingering and light fingering weight yarn.
Needles & notions: 2.75mm (US 2) and 3mm circular needles (32” or longer); locking and ring-type stitch markers, tapestry needle, 0.7mm crochet hook (or needle and floss) for placing beads, 561 seed beads, 8/0 size (optional).
Gauge: 22 sts/34 rows = 4” in stockinette with smaller needles after blocking. Adjust needle size to obtain gauge; gauge is not critical but will affect yardage and finished size.
Finished size: 66” (168 cm) along top edge, 15” (38 cm) height at center, 130” (330 cm) along bottom edge, after blocking
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