Taival

DESCRIPTION

Taival is a three-color, shallow triangle shawl made of garter stitch and stripes. Take it along the road as a traveling companion for both knitting on-the-go or, when finished, draped over your shoulders for extra warmth. (There's nothing stopping you from knitting it home in front of the telly, though.)

Straightforward garter stitch is interspersed with sections of narrow two-row stripes in alternating colors. This shawl is a compelling and fast-paced knit with absolutely no purl stitches… until the border.

The ruched border is made by rapidly doubling the stitch count for the see-through contrast-colored stripes knit with fluffy lace-weight mohair. Use slightly larger needles to enhance the effect even further.

The pattern is written with both metric and US terminology. No charts are needed.

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FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

• Wingspan: approx. 180 cm / 71"
• Depth: approx. 50 cm / 19½"

MATERIALS

Yarn

• Main color (MC): Tukuwool Fingering (100% wool, 200 m/50 g, 220 yd/1.76 oz), 2 skeins in the colorway 02 Humu
• Contrasting color 1 (CC1): Filcolana Tilia (70% mohair, 30% silk, 210 m/25 g, 230 yd/0.88 oz), 1 skein in the colorway 352 Red Squirrel
• Contrasting color 2 (CC2): Filcolana Tilia, 1 skein in the colorway 289 Blue Coral

Or

• Main color (MC): approx. 400 m / 440 yd of smooth fingering-weight yarn, such as wool or wool blend
• Contrasting color 1 (CC1): approx. 120 m / 130 yd of fluffy lace-weight yarn, such as mohair, silk mohair, suri alpaca, brushed alpaca, or angora
• Contrasting color 2 (CC2): approx. 180 m / 190 yd of fluffy lace-weight yarn

Contrasting colors should stand out from the main color but contrast between the two is not essential.

Needles

• 3.5 mm / US #4 long (80–100 cm / 32–40") circular needle for garter stitch with main color (or size to obtain gauge)
• 4.0 mm / US #6 long circular needle for stockinette with contrasting colors

Notions

• Waste yarn, spare needle, or safety pin for provisional cast-on
• 1 closed and 1 removable stitch marker
• Darning needle

GAUGE

• 17 sts × 35 rows = 10 cm / 4" in garter stitch with main color and smaller needles, lightly blocked

TECHNIQUES USED

The pattern uses the following techniques: provisional cast-on, garter-tab cast-on, centered quadruple decrease, and Icelandic bind-off.

REFERENCES

• 6+1 Provisional Cast-on Methods
• How to Knit Garter-tab Cast-on
• Icelandic Bind-off