The Royal Bridges Shawl is a textured shawl that incorporates ribbing sections in between stockinette sections of knitting. It’s super fun to knit, and goes more quickly than you might expect. The shawl is knit top-down. You will cast on a few stitches, and then pick up stitches along the side and cast on edge to form a garter tab. Then you will increase on every row using yarnovers, and every other row using make 1 right and make 1 left increases. Every once in a while, you will work ribbing for a few rows. Lastly, the border is knit in garter stitch.

Yarn: you will need about 390-400 yards of any fingering to dk weight yarn. I used Gypsy Mountain Farm Merino Yak Nylon.

Needles: size 5 US (3.75 mm) circular knitting needles, or size to get gauge.

Gauge: 19 sts and 28 rows over 4 inches in stockinette stitch knit flat with size 5 US (3.75 mm) knitting needles or size to get gauge (unblocked)

Finished Dimensions (blocked): 18” tall and 58” wide measured across the top (if gauge is met)

The gauge is not super crucial for this project, unless you would like your shawl to be the same size as my sample. You might use less or more yarn depending on how tightly or loosely you knit. Please keep in mind that the shawl was designed to be knit at a fairly loose gauge for a nice drape.

Thank you to each and everyone of my testers:
Lavenderknits44,
Klw524,
anaju,
& HRHPersephone.
You have my unending gratitude!