Succulent Shawl by Samantha Main

Succulent Shawl

Knitting
April 2017
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
18 stitches and 30 rows = 4 inches
in Stocking Stitch
US 6 - 4.0 mm
766 - 875 yards (700 - 800 m)
One Size
English
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Thank you to all those who downloaded the pattern whilst it was free. You well and truly surpassed the 500 mark in my absence, and instead 1505 of you snapped it up!

Description:
Many years ago my sister asked for a couple of succulent plants for her Birthday. I obliged and found some interested looking plants for her.

A few weeks later I bought my own. One commonly known as a jade tree or money tree, and the other a spiky type of aloe.

Very easy to care for, the jade tree only 2 years later is absolutely huge! It has outgrown my deepest windowsill and I’m not sure where to go next. The aloe, also keeping very well. Oh, and I habe many many more succulents now filling the windowsills.

This pattern is inspired by the basic shape of that very young aloe, with its three spikes.

Materials:
2 x 100g skein of fingering weight yarn (2 x 400m)
1 x 4.00mm circular knitting needle (UK8/US6)
1 x darning needle

Final Measurements:
109cm at widest point x 60cm at deepest point.

Stitches:
Difficulty: Intermediate
Knit & purl
Increases & decreases
One larger increase
Charts

Requires the ability to read your knitting to identify a knit two together (k2tog) stitch

Thank you to my test knitters bettybugg and silviapaddy who both made gorgeous shawls.