Coffee Art Shawl

Designed in collaboration with Birdstreet Yarn using their new yarn bases, beautiful combinations of SW Merino, Kid mohair and Mulberry silk.
The Coffee Art shawl is a large crescent shawl. Knit from tip to tip, it combines a main section in a simple slip stitch texture and a knit as you go border, featuring a 2-colour leaf motif and a mock cable mohair edge, which made me think of the patterns baristas make on lattes.

Information
Yarn: MC: 2 x 100g fingering weight yarn; CC: 20g fingering weight yarn; Mohair: 25g laceweight yarn
Sample knit using MK Single 56 (56% SW Extra Fine Merino, 44% Superkid Mohair 4 ply weight 100g/360m) from Birdstreet Yarn in MC: Bean (550m) and CC: Crema (40m); SM 72 (72% Superkid Mohair, 28% Mulberry Silk Lace 50g/420m) in Super-Fuzzy Latte (180m).
Needles: US 6/ 4.00mm or needles to get gauge
Gauge: 26 sts and 42 rows to 4”/10 cm in slip stitch pattern blocked; 26 sts and 48 rows to 4”/10 cm in slip stitch pattern unblocked over slip stitch pattern.
Measurements: 16”/ 39 cm deep; 65”/164 cm wingspan
Notions: Removeable marker to mark border section, cable needle, tapestry needle

Construction
The shawl is knit from tip to tip. The main body of the shawl is worked in a slip stitch texture pattern. A border pattern combining a mohair mock cable and a contrast colour leaf garland is worked as you go using intarsia and twisted knit stitches. An icord edge is worked along the top of the shawl, also as you go, giving a neat flexible edge to the project.
The crescent shape is created using different rates of increase and decreases throughout the shawl. There are 7 sections, 1-3 are increasing, 4 is knit straight and 5-7 are decreasing. It might be useful to use markers to indicate where the different sections start/end and, additionally, where the current repeat starts.
Because of this method of construction, it is possible to create a large crescent shawl without having 100’s of stitches on your needles.