“Banks” is a traditional top-down triangular shawl that begins with a garter tab cast-on, and grows with four yarnover increases every right-side row. The clusters in the pretty stitch pattern are made with yarnover eyelets and centered double decreases—the cdd is the only decrease used in the main body of the shawl. This decrease is used in the border of the shawl, as well, and the decreases pull up the fabric to create the scalloped hem, but you’ll need to make a k2tog or ssk where there aren’t enough stitches for a full repeat of the border’s stitch pattern.

The techniques you will need to know, or learn, to complete this project are:

• garter tab cast-on (instructions in pattern);
• knit and purl;
• yo increase;
• k2tog decrease;
• ssk decrease;
• cdd double decrease;
• lace bind-off (instructions in pattern).

“Nestled on the top of the escarpment a few miles east of Ravenna, Banks is a tiny community on Grey County Road 119. It is a key feeder road that takes traffic through a rural part of The Blue Mountains, down the escarpment, past Scenic Caves to the Blue Mountain Village area.”
~ Collingwood Today