Lime Chamraj

DESCRIPTION

Brew a cup and sit down for a quiet moment for yourself.

Lime Chamraj is named after a variety of lime-scented green tea. It is zesty, zingy, refreshing… yet soothing as its namesake.

Lime Chamraj is an asymmetrical crescent-shaped shawl made of garter stitch and simple eyelet lace. Alternating sections of eyelets and garter-stitch wedges shaped with short rows make both relaxing and stimulating knitting. The sweeping garter-stitch sections give an unusual shape to the shawl.

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

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FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

• Wingspan: approx. 175 cm / 5’9”
• Depth: approx. 40 cm / 15¾”

MATERIALS

Yarn

• Isager Tweed (70% wool, 30% mohair, 200 m/50 g), 3 skeins. The sample is knitted in the colorway Lime.
• Or fingering-weight yarn, approx. 650 m / 710 yd

Needles

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

Notions

• 2 stitch markers
• Darning needle

GAUGE

20 sts × 40 rows (20 garter ridges) = 10 cm / 4” in garter stitch, blocked

TECHNIQUES USED

The pattern uses the following techniques: provisional cast-on, garter tab cast-on, knit and purl stitches, double yarnovers, short rows using the German short row technique, and picot bind-off. Instructions for the eyelet pattern are provided both in written and charted format.

REFERENCES

• Garter-tab cast-on
• German short rows