Lady Lovelace is a crescent shaped, top-down shawl, inspired by the colors and lace of the Victorian era. It can be knit with one or two skeins of fingering weight yarn, making a small or large shawl. The shawl starts with a stockinette body followed by three lace sections that increase in difficulty.

At the start of the Victorian era, Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithm meant to be carried out by a machine, making her the first computer programmer. This shawl includes a stitch which was encoded from the word “raven” by gannet.

Yarn
1 skein (Small) or 2 skeins (Large) of fingering weight yarn.

Small sample used 311m (340yds) of The Fox and the Knight - Yak Knight, a blend of 60% superwash merino, 20% yak and 20% silk, with 366m (400yds) per 100 gram.

Gauge
18 stitches x 27 rows per 4”/10cm in blocked stockinette stitch.

Gauge isn’t critical, but will affect finished measurements and total yardage.

Size
Approximate size after blocking for Small: 132cm/52” wingspan and 46cm/17” center depth.
Approximate size after blocking for Large: 177cm/70” wingspan and 58cm/23” center depth.