Five Short Row Shawls
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Short rows are one of my all-time favorite knitting techniques. They easily allow you to shape your knitwear, for better fit and more intriguing angles. In the Five Short Row Shawls collection, I’ve used this technique to create five simple garter one-skein shawls, each with a different and unique construction. While I love crescents, topdown triangles and bias boomerangs, the five wraps in this book use short rows imaginatively to create some of these familiar shapes in totally new ways. By choosing a single skein of a beautiful variegated or semi-solid yarn worked in garter stitch, the focus is entirely on the rhythmic and magical process of knitting short rows. The results are both simple, and singularly stunning.
Each pattern may be purchased individually, or all together as an ebook with a special price that equals getting one pattern for free. The one-skein, reversible garter shawls in this collection include the following designs:
Rondelay is constructed from three sequential half rounds or rondels, which grow from cast on stitches using both short rows and strategically placed radial yarnover increases.
Triangulate is composed of two triangles with a chevron border; the shawl begins with a provisional cast on at the center, and is knit outwards in two triangular halves using short rows.
Piewhacket is constructed from three sequential short row triangles which build on each other, with a final uneven edging knit from live stitches using additional short rows.
Aerophile is worked in two wings using short rows from a provisionally cast on central spine, while the scalloped top edge is created by casting on additional stitches. After both wings are complete, a loopy super-picot edging binds off the live stitches along the bottom edge.
A new take on the ruffle shawl, Rufflebye is worked sideways in three garter stitch wedges which cleverly intersect to change the knitting direction. Increases and decreases create the shape from tip to tip, while two sets of short rows throughout form the crescent shape and the gently ruffled edging.
Techniques & Skills Used: longtail CO, cable CO, provisional CO, backwards loop CO, knit, increasing/decreasing, short rows.
Size: each shawl is one size, and several accomodate adjusting for more yardage.
Yarn: one skein of light fingering weight yarn totalling about 400 yards is required for each shawl.
Other Materials: US 6 (4mm) 40” circular needle, or size to match gauge; Stitch markers; Scrap yarn; Yarn needle.
Gauge: the gauges range from 18-22 st and 34-40 rows/4” in garter stitch, after blocking. Gauge is not critical for these projects, however a different gauge may result in a smaller or larger finished shawl, and different yardage requirements.
Each pattern may be purchased individually, or all together as an ebook with a special price that equals getting one pattern for free. The one-skein, reversible garter shawls in this collection include the following designs:
Rondelay is constructed from three sequential half rounds or rondels, which grow from cast on stitches using both short rows and strategically placed radial yarnover increases.
Triangulate is composed of two triangles with a chevron border; the shawl begins with a provisional cast on at the center, and is knit outwards in two triangular halves using short rows.
Piewhacket is constructed from three sequential short row triangles which build on each other, with a final uneven edging knit from live stitches using additional short rows.
Aerophile is worked in two wings using short rows from a provisionally cast on central spine, while the scalloped top edge is created by casting on additional stitches. After both wings are complete, a loopy super-picot edging binds off the live stitches along the bottom edge.
A new take on the ruffle shawl, Rufflebye is worked sideways in three garter stitch wedges which cleverly intersect to change the knitting direction. Increases and decreases create the shape from tip to tip, while two sets of short rows throughout form the crescent shape and the gently ruffled edging.
Techniques & Skills Used: longtail CO, cable CO, provisional CO, backwards loop CO, knit, increasing/decreasing, short rows.
Size: each shawl is one size, and several accomodate adjusting for more yardage.
Yarn: one skein of light fingering weight yarn totalling about 400 yards is required for each shawl.
Other Materials: US 6 (4mm) 40” circular needle, or size to match gauge; Stitch markers; Scrap yarn; Yarn needle.
Gauge: the gauges range from 18-22 st and 34-40 rows/4” in garter stitch, after blocking. Gauge is not critical for these projects, however a different gauge may result in a smaller or larger finished shawl, and different yardage requirements.
