This elegant lace design is rated Intermediate due to some patterning on wrong side rows and the addition of a lace edging at the beginning and end of the stole. Five columns of lace grace the body of the stole with a lovely meandering zigzag design formed by offsetting every other column. The pattern contains options for knitting the stole without the lace edging, a beading option, lace charts, blocking instructions and a few lace knitting tips.

The stole requires at least 800 yards of fingering weight yarn. It is knit on size 5 (3.75 mm) needles. The picture stole measured 62” x 15” when it came off the needles and 72” x 20” after blocking.

This lace pattern is a derivation of the Janus pattern from Barbara Walker’s stitch treasuries. The lace edging is my own original design featuring a heart motif and a curving fern leaf. The heart motif is repeated in the body of the stole.

The pattern is a four-page pdf file with line-by-line written instructions and lace charts.