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Sleeping Satellite is a crescent-shaped, brioche lace shawl. Adella gifted me a mega-skein of Wax Bean in Moonshine to see what I could do with it. I loved the idea of a one-skein shawl, and given the colorway, I decided the lunar landscape would be an interesting source of inspiration.

After knitting the shawl in Moonshine, I thought a larger size shawl would be great, with more repeats of the section mimicking the moon’s craters. So what should I make the larger version out of? Adella had just done a run of Burgundy Beam, and I thought that would make a beautiful blood moon version of Sleeping Satellite.

Yarn
LolaBean Yarn Co Wax Bean (80% superwash merino wool / 20% silk) (150 g, 600 yards) Fingering-weight (CYC #1): 1 skein in Moonshine for small size, 2 skeins in Burgundy Beam for large size.

Needles
4.0 mm (US 6) circular needle or size needed to obtain gauge or
appropriate for your yarn.

Notions
Tapestry needle. (Optional: stitch markers.)

Gauge
Gauge is provided so you can achieve a similar-sized shawl to the one shown here, and will have enough yarn to complete the project. (The shawl was designed to use approximately 90% of the yarn called for.) Gauge is worked over brioche rib and is heavily blocked.

25 stitches = 4”
40 rows = 4”

Notes
While stitch markers are not absolutely required, I found them extremely helpful to mark the yarnover placement. For the large shawl, the attached garter band took approximately 60 yards (15g of Wax Bean).