Chamomile Dreams

DESCRIPTION

Chamomile Dreams is a bright and happy shawl worked in two colors of luscious merino singles. The shawl features stockinette and simple, flowery lace. But don’t drift into dreamland just yet because there’s a little trick to this lace: it’s worked on both sides of the shawl.

Chamomile Dreams is worked on the bias to make an asymmetrical triangle. Pick two contrasting colors of fingering weight yarn to make the chamomile lace pop.

The shawl comes in two sizes: three or five lace repeats in the border.

The pattern is written with both metric and US terminology. Both written and charted instructions are given for the lace pattern.

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SIZES

• Small [Large]
• 3 [5] lace repeats in the border

The sample shawl is shown in the Large size.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

• Wingspan: approx. 165 [185] cm / 5’5” [6’1”]
• Depth: approx. 55 [65] cm / 21¾ [25½]"

MATERIALS

Yarn

Primrose Yarn Co. Adelaide (100% superwash wool, 398 m/115 g), 2 colors

• Main color (MC): 1 skein in the colorway Dark Cavern
• Contrast color (CC): 1 skein in the colorway Spiced Curry

Or fingering-weight yarn in 2 colors

• MC: approx. 365 [395] m / 400 [435] yd
• CC: approx. 160 [240] m / 175 [265] yd

Needles

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

Notions

• Darning needle

GAUGE

23 sts × 32 rows = 10 cm / 4” in stockinette, blocked

TECHNIQUES USED

The pattern uses the following techniques: long-tail cast-on, working lace on both sides of the work, slipped stitches, and picot bind-off. Instructions for the lace pattern are provided both in written and charted format.