Amalia Shawl
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Amalia is a crescent shaped shoulder shawl with a lace border adapted from the Portuguese Edging in A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker.
A wider edging with the lace worked on both sides combines with garter stitch short rows in a shoulder shawl designed to unleash the inner fadista* in any adventurous intermediate knitter.
Amalia can be made in two sizes, and the pattern includes both written and charted instructions along with a schematic for blocking to finished size.
* a female singer of fado, the musical genre from Portugal. Amalia is named after the woman known as the “Queen of Fado”, Amália Rodrigues.
Suggested yarns:
Koigu Painter's Palette Premium Merino (KPPPM)
Koigu Premium Merino (KPM)
Koigu Mori
Yarn weight: Fingering (14 wpi)
Yardage: 525 - 700 yards (480 - 640 m)
Gauge:
Fingering weight yarn that works to a ball band gauge of about 28 sts to 10cm/4in.
One repeat of the lace edging blocked should measure approximately 2.75 in/7 cm tall and 4.75 in/12 cm wide.
Blocked size: Small: Wingspan of 135 cm/53 inches by 25 cm/10 inches deep at mid-point; Large: Wingspan of 170 cm/67 inches by 30.5 cm/12 inches deep at mid-point
Amalia is a crescent shaped shoulder shawl with a lace border adapted from the Portuguese Edging in A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker.
A wider edging with the lace worked on both sides combines with garter stitch short rows in a shoulder shawl designed to unleash the inner fadista* in any adventurous intermediate knitter.
Amalia can be made in two sizes, and the pattern includes both written and charted instructions along with a schematic for blocking to finished size.
* a female singer of fado, the musical genre from Portugal. Amalia is named after the woman known as the “Queen of Fado”, Amália Rodrigues.
Suggested yarns:
Koigu Painter's Palette Premium Merino (KPPPM)
Koigu Premium Merino (KPM)
Koigu Mori
Yarn weight: Fingering (14 wpi)
Yardage: 525 - 700 yards (480 - 640 m)
Gauge:
Fingering weight yarn that works to a ball band gauge of about 28 sts to 10cm/4in.
One repeat of the lace edging blocked should measure approximately 2.75 in/7 cm tall and 4.75 in/12 cm wide.
Blocked size: Small: Wingspan of 135 cm/53 inches by 25 cm/10 inches deep at mid-point; Large: Wingspan of 170 cm/67 inches by 30.5 cm/12 inches deep at mid-point