This pattern helps new lace knitters break new ground by teaching you how to knit a lace stitch pattern whilst simultaneously shaping your knitting.

It is one of the later, more advanced, exercises from the Lacestar ebook, which teaches you how to knit lace from first, basic stitches, to more complex stitches and techniques.

If you can do this, then you can begin to make lace accessories and garments. And that is exactly what we are going to do here: this exercise will grow into a full-size shawl if you want it to, or can just be worked to a mini swatch size. This exercise uses increases, but decreasing is exactly the same process in reverse, so the skills you learn here will apply to either scenario.