Bruocsella is a quite simple and elegant triangular shawlette, knit with one skein of fingering weight and one skein of lace mohair yarn and an optional paillette yarn held together. It is knit from the top down, in garter stitch and a short lace bottom edge.

Suggested yarns:

The shawl is knitted with 1 strand of fingering and 1 strand of fluffy lace weight yarns held together.

• 1 skein of fingering weight yarn (400 m - 100 g);
• 1 skein fluffy lace weight yarn like mohair silk (420 m – 100 g) or alpaca/suri silk (400 m – 50 g).

Gauge: 17 sts x 34 r = 10 x 10 cm (4 x 4”) measured over garter stitch knit flat after blocking.

Suggested needles: 4.00 (US 6).

Final size: ± 155 cm x ± 56 cm (61x22”).

Skills required:

To knit this shawl, you will need to know how to:

• cast on;
• slip a stitch (sl1);
• yarn over (yo);
• knit through the back loop (ktbl);
• knit front and back (kfb);
• knit two stitches together (k2tog);
• do the suspend bind off.

The story behind the name:

Bruocsella is the ancient name of Brussels, where I was born and raised. Brussels is a special city; multicultural, tiny, surprising, and very Belgian. Even if I do not live there anymore (I very much prefer the countryside) Brussels is a part of me and will always have a special place in my heart. It was also in Brussels that my knitting friends asked me to write down this pattern (my very first one), so Bruocsella, where it all starts, was a good fit.