This is the shawl worn by my heroine in my Christian Regency romantic suspense novel, Lady Wynwood’s Spies, Volume 7: Spinster. In the book, Lena is recovering from sickness and uses her favorite shawl to keep warm.

I used only about 60% of each of 5 skeins of Hawthorne Fingering Weight yarn, 975 yards/273 grams.

The lace pattern is the Open Diamond pattern #19 from The Lady’s Assistant, volume 1 by Jane Gaugain, published in 1847. The pattern is the same in both the 1840 and 1847 edition, but it is written for working in the round in the 1840 edition while the later reprints have it written for working back and forth on two needles, so I charted the pattern according to the 1847 edition. I also adjusted several of the decreases to give them directionality.

The shawl starts from one corner and increases, then continues for the straight section by increasing on one side while simultaneously decreasing on the other side of every other row. The shawl ends by decreasing on both sides back to a point.

There are five charts and you can adjust the size of the shawl by changing how many times you repeat the increase section of Chart B.

I used US 5 needles with the fingering weight yarn to make a warmer shawl. However, if you wanted a lighter, lacier shawl, I would suggest either lace weight yarn or using fingering weight yarn with US 6 or US 7 needles.