The pattern is both written and charted.

The Cockle Shell Stitch is a favourite of mine. That contrasting pop of colour looks like a row of flowers just jumping out from the background. The stole style of shawl showcases this stitch beautifully.

Knit with B.C. Garn Loch Lomond Lace in the shades 14 (eggshell)(3 hanks) and 23 (baby pink)(2 hanks), the colours together just sing of Spring.

This pattern is very adaptable. The stripes of pattern can be made in many different ways. Play with the striping patterns. Stripe the background or stripe the pops! Eliminate the center panel and just work the cockleshell pattern.

There is a “pithy” set of instructions for adapting the pattern to a fingering weight scarf at the end of the stole pattern.

The shawl is knit in two pieces and the then grafted together.

Materials: 800m of main colour, 500m of the secondary colour of a heavy lace weight yarn (300m to 50grams); sample was knit with BC Garn Loch Lomond Lace; 3.75mm US #5 needles, straight or circular, markers and the regular notions.

Gauge: 20 sts in 10cm, 4in in Diamond Chain Lace – blocked and relaxed.

Size: Dimensions – 62 cm, 25.5 inches wide and 158cm, 62 inches long