Chain Lakes

Chain Lakes

Chain Lakes is a generously large shawl, with striking colourwork and dashes of easy lace chained together in a modular construction. There is a nice little dip in the neck from the resulting construction to cozily nestle onto your shoulders.

All colourwork is charted and worked flat over 5 rows (you’re only purling 2 of those rows! Plus the colourwork is broken up into chunks so you’re not doing it all at once). The texture and lace patterning in the wedges is fully written.

(February, 2025)

Chain Lakes on Ravelry: Chain Lakes

Size

203cm / 80” tip to tip

53cm / 20.75” center depth

Yarn

Reywa Fibers Embrace (100% Tibetan Yak Down; 200 meters / 218 yards in 100 grams) in 1 main colour (MC: Emerald Tea) and 1 contrast colour (CC: Emerald). If using the sample yarn, the number skeins of Reywa Embrace is given in brackets.

MC (Emerald Tea; 4 skeins): 795 metres / 870 yards

CC (Emerald; 1 skein): 150 metres / 165 yards

Gauges

To find your needle sizes you need to swatch.

Stockinette: 20 sts / 28 rows to 10cm / 4” using size A needles.

Stranded Colourwork: 20 sts / 24 rows to 10cm / 4” using size B needles.

Needles & Notions

The gauges were achieved with the following needles. To work the pattern as written, you must swatch and use a needle size that will result in the correct gauge after blocking.

Size A: 4mm (US 6) needles of varying lengths

Size B: 4.5mm (US 7) needles of varying lengths

You will also need: spare needles or interchangeable cables for holding sts; stitch markers; removable markers for the mst short rows.

Text edited by Susan Hislop (Ravelry: Sue-Cat)