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Blushing
Blushing is a fingering weight (4ply) shawl perfect for a pretty gradient, lovely solid, or lightly speckled yarn. It is designed to give you all the benefits of a bias shawl like maximum length for meterage and an easy to wear style, without the pesky shaping all the way through your project.
This shawl is worked from corner to corner with a series of increases to set-up the width, a meditative repeat over the body, and a speedy finish resulting from rapid decreases which means that there is no lengthy cast-on or cast-off.
Instructions are fully written and include charts for the lace panel repeats. A tick sheet with stitch counts and repeat tracking is also provided.
Yarn
300g Fingering weight yarn approx. 366m/400yd/100g/3.5oz. per skein
Sample: 280g/1025m/1121yd of Waratah Fibres Sock Gradient set which is 183m/200yd/50g/1.75oz. in 6 gradient skeins (Coral Blush).
Waratah Fibres have designed a choice of 3 lovely mini-skein gradient kits for this shawl. To preorder your kit from woollywaratah just send a message or go to their website.
Needles & Notions
Pair of 4mm (US 6) needles. I like to use an 80cm circular needle set but straight are fine also.
4 stitch markers. A couple of clip markers or safety pins for marking your row & repeat progress and 2 scrap pieces of yarn for marking the corners of your shawl for blocking.
Tension/Gauge
22 sts and 30 rows per 10cm (4”) square over garter stitch after blocking.
Finished Measurements
Approx. 47cm wide x 230cm along top edge (18 1/2” x 90 1/2”) after blocking.
Many thanks to my wonderful testers ymzgmhg blackpearlknits Clairecoton Xanthe yarna woollywaratah pollywaffle taraja Birdie3767
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- First published: February 2019
- Page created: February 10, 2019
- Last updated: February 15, 2019 …
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