Flower Bell Stole

This stole features several raised Japanese stitch patterns that form a beautiful “flower bell” edging. The stole starts with the edging; the body stitches are picked up off that and worked to the middle. The stitches are put on waste yarn and the second half is worked. Finally, the two pieces are grafted together. The pattern includes instructions for two stole sizes and a scarf.


Skills Required:

• lace
• picking up stitches
• Increasing and decreasing
• Following charts
• grafting (kitchener stitch)
• blocking

Sizes: Scarf (Medium Stole, Large Stole)
Finished Size (blocked): 12 (18, 24)"/30 (46, 61) cm wide by 54 (72, 84)"/137 (183, 213) cm long.


Other Tools:

• Stitch markers (2)
• Tapestry needle
• Large stitch holder (1) or waste yarn
• Blocking tools

Yarn: 840 (1,272, 1,600) yards/768 (1,163, 1463) meters of merino fingering weight yarn that knits up to 7 sts/inch.


Shown In:
String Theory Hand Dyed Yarn ‘Caper Sock’, (400 yards/366 meters; 80% merino, 10% cashmere, 10% nylon; 3.99 oz/113 grams per skein), 4 skeins in Cactus, size Large Stole (green sample).

Cephalopod Yarns ‘Skinny Bugga!’, (424 yards/388 yards ; 80% merino, 10% cashmere, 10% nylon; 3.99 oz/113 grams per skein), 3 skeins in Rose Weevil, size Medium Stole (red sample).

madelinetosh ‘tosh merino light’, (420 yards/384 meters; 100% merino; 3.53 oz/100 grams per skein), 2 skeins in Grenadine, size Scarf (pink sample).