Caroline by Caryn Moir

Caroline

Knitting
October 2017
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
US 5 - 3.75 mm
800 - 1000 yards (732 - 914 m)
One size fits all - easily modified
English
This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

This intermediate shawl is collaboration between Caryn Moir and Jennifer Miller (the artistic genius behind Theodora’s Pearls!). It’s a good project for knitters who want to build on their sock yarn shawl skills. You’ll begin with a tab start, then work through a striping section and finish with a lace edge. The stockinette/garter fields show off pretty hand dyed yarn well and the end result will look like you worked much harder than you did. (The striping section is a great way to use partial balls of yarn - it’s a total stash buster!)

Beginners with tab start experience will learn color changes and relatively simple lace.

Intermediate knitters will work with familiar techniques to create unique and colorful shawls.

Tricks You Need to Know (or want to learn):

  1. Beginner Basics: cast on, knit, purl, bind off.
  2. Increase by picking up the stitch below and yo.
  3. Decreases (k2tog, ssk)
  4. Working with thinner yarns
  5. Color changes between rows.
  6. Using stitch markers (optional but highly recommended!)
  7. Blocking