Flight Home Shawl by Yulia Vysochina

Flight Home Shawl

This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

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I will donate to www.redcross.ca to the Provincial Red Cross to help those who got hit by flood in South Alberta this year in June.
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I created this pattern when i was going home from South Korea.
It was so sad to leave such a beautiful country, but at the same time I was happy to go home :)
Enjoy your knitting!! :)

Pattern details:
The pattern is charted.
Knitting starts from the bottom with the lace part, it goes through the short row section and finishes with another pattern of lace on the top of the shawl.
Dimensions of this shawl can be adjusted by using different number of pattern repeats, using different yarn weight or needle size.
Suggested yarn weight:
Light lace, lace, heavy lace, light fingering, fingering.

The pattern was test-knitted in this thread by great people and knitters:
stickfia, marjos, Katzenvieh, zemugne, Roseinstitches, Freken1970
Thank you very much, ladies!!!

Some dimensions and yardage of the test-projects are all collected here, so you can see them all at once:

stickfia’s Flight Home:
Teetee elegant - 540.6 yards (494.3m) used for 443 sts version
US 4 - 3.5 mm
124 cm / 49” - upper edge
260 cm / 102” - cast on edge
22 cm / 8.7” - hight of the side edge
27 cm / 6.7” - hight in the middle

marjos’s Test Flight Home shawl:
Wollmeise Lace Garn - 574.2 yards (525.1m) used for 299 CO sts version
US 7 - 4.5 mm
127 cm / 50” - upper edge
305 cm / 120” - cast on edge
22 cm / 8.7” - hight of the side edge
27 cm / 6.7” - hight in the middle

Katzenvieh’s Flight Home Test knit:
100% merino “Pehorka Elitnaya” (415 m / 50 g) - 618 yards (565 m) - number from the thread post used for 407 CO sts version
US 4 - 3.5 mm (CO using US 8 – 5 mm needle and tight BO using US 4 - 3.5 mm)
120 cm / 47” - upper edge
280 cm / 110” - cast on edge
28 cm / 11” - hight of the side edge
45 cm / 18” - hight in the middle

zemugne’s Flight Home Shawl:
Aade Lõng Artistic 8/1 - 848.8 yards (776.1m) used for 515 CO sts version
US 1½ - 2.5 mm (CO using US 6 - 4.0 mm)
206 cm / 81” - upper edge
421 cm / 166” - cast on edge
35 cm / 14” - hight of the side edge
66 cm / 26” - hight in the middle

Roseinstitches’ Robin Flight Home Shawl Test Knit:
Malabrigo Yarn - Lace - 611.0 yards (558.7m) used for 515 CO sts version
US 3 - 3.25 mm (CO using US 10½ - 6.5 mm needle and BO using the I-Cord method)
181 cm / 71” - upper edge
56 cm / 22” - hight in the middle

Freken1970’s Зимняя вишня (Winter Cherry):
Seam Anna 16 (Анна 16) - 407 CO sts version
US 6 - 4.0 mm
140 cm / 55” - upper edge
270 cm / 106” - cast on edge
41 cm / 16” - hight of the side edge
46 cm / 18” - hight in the middle