Spice Road

DESCRIPTION

Spice Road is a three-color shawl in soothing garter stitch and an engaging textured slip-stitch pattern — and not a single purl stitch! This shawl was designed for a three-color fade going from light to dark or from subtle to saturated.

Sections of one-color garter stitch and two-color slip stitches alternate in this top-down shawl worked in light fingering or fingering-weight yarn. The shawl ends in a sawtooth bind-off shaped with short rows. Built-in i-cord edgings surround the shawl in all three edges.

Spice Road is worked on the bias to make an asymmetrical triangle. The pattern comes in two sizes: Shawl and Shawlette. Pick a trio of colors and start your adventure!

This pattern is written with both metric and US terminology. This pattern is also ambidextrous: it uses neutral handedness expressions. Only written instructions are provided for the slip-stitch pattern — charts are not needed.

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FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

• Shawlette [Shawl]
• Wingspan: approx. 145 [200] cm / 57 [78¾]"
• Depth: approx. 35 [50] cm / 13½ [19¾]"

MATERIALS

Yarn

Holst Garn Supersoft (100% wool, 287 m/50 g, 314 yd/1.76 oz), 3 colors

• Color A: 1 skein in colorway #21 Goldcrest
• Color B: 1 [2] skeins in colorway #22 Ember
• Color C: 1 [2] skeins in colorway #23 Bokhara

Or (light) fingering weight yarn, 3 colors

• Color A: approx. 160 [215] m / 175 [235] yd
• Color B: approx. 165 [300] m / 180 [330] yd
• Color C: approx. 225 [360] m / 230 [395] yd

Needles

• 3.5 mm / US #4 long (80–100 cm / 32–40”) circular needle (or size needed to obtain gauge)

Notions

• 1 locking stitch marker (optional)
• 15 [20] stitch markers
• Darning needle

GAUGE

21 sts × 40 rows (20 garter ridges) = 10 cm / 4" in garter stitch, blocked

TECHNIQUES USED

The pattern uses the following techniques: long-tail cast-on, slipped stitches, German short rows, and i-cord bind-off.

REFERENCES

• German short rows