Tilting at Windmills Shawl is knit in worsted weight yarn, which makes it a project of sincere comfort. Tilted blocks of garter stitch and lace are a kind arm around your shoulders, a child’s warm hug flung about your neck, a cozy nap in the sun.

The name evolved from the novel Don Quixote. More than four hundred years ago, Miguel Cervantes wrote that his character Don Quixote came to a plain of windmills and, imagining them to be hulking giants, exclaimed that he would slay them and take their riches. Over the centuries, the phrase “tilting (jousting) at windmills” has come to mean fighting an imaginary enemy.

To customize the Tilting at Windmills Shawl, pattern includes yarn requirements for individual 1.25 in / 3.2 cm stripes!

Yarn:
Fidalgo Artisan Yarn & Clothing
• Main - Kilcar Tweed 0522 Marsh Tweed (olive green) 389 yds / 356 m worsted weight
• Contrast - Kilcar Tweed 0922 Embers (black) 166 yds / 151.5 m worsted weight

Needles: US 9 / 5.50 mm circ about 47 in / 120 cm long

Notions: 4 stitch markers, tapestry needle to weave in ends.

Techniques:
• purl through the back loop (p1tbl)
• knit two stitches together (k2tog)
• slip-slip-knit decrease (ssk)
• yarnover
• knit front and back in the same stitch (kfb)