This design was inspired by the beauty of Shetland lace. Traditional Shetland shawls typically involve techniques such as picking up stitches, grafting and knitted-on edgings.

This shawl has none of these time-consuming techniques! I designed it so that busy, modern-day knitters can indulge in the luxury of uninterrupted lace knitting from start to finish. There are only a few ends to weave in.

The shawl uses 4 lace patterns. The gentle waves of the ripple pattern on the short edges give way to the sharper lines of chevrons and hexagon motifs. The shawl body has a delicate all-over pattern of bead stitch columns.

The shawl body needs both sides patterning, and a little attention as you knit. Some tips for the center:

1. Use stitch markers after each pattern multiple. Preferably count stitches in each row, and check for correctness too.

2. Use a lifeline in the last row of each row multiple. Keep all the lifelines in till the shawl is ready to be blocked.

DIRECT PATTERN LINK

Skill Level:
Intermediate

Size:
25” wide x 81” long, after blocking.
Note: Old Shale, Chevron, Hexagon and Bead st patterns are 6”, 12.5”, 6” and 32” long respectively.

Materials:
Cascade Yarns® Llamerino
50% Baby Llama / 50% Merino Wool
100 g (3.5 oz) / 291 yds (267 m)
3 skeins color #22 (Aqua)
US 7 (4.5 mm) knitting needles or size to obtain gauge
Yarn Needle
10 Stitch Markers
Waste yarn for lifelines

Gauge:
16 sts x 22 rows = 4” (10 cm), in Stockinette st, after blocking

Errata 2nd May 2019
Note on format: on this page, the asterisk can only be used to indicate italics, and therefore could not be inserted to denote patt reps as is conventionally done

1. Chevron Stitch pattern: Chart 2: (Multiple of 8 sts plus 5; 46-row repeat)

Purl all even (WS) rows.

Row 1(RS): K1, (K1, YO, SSK, K5); repeat from ( across the row; end with K1, YO, SSK, K1.
Row 3: K2tog, (YO, K1, YO, SSK, K3, K2tog); repeat from ( across the row; end with YO, K1, YO, SSK.
Note: The marker will move 1 st to left.
Row 5: K1, ((K1, (YO, SSK) twice,K1, K2tog, YO)); repeat from (( across the row; end with K1, YO, SSK, K1.
Row 7: K2tog, (YO, K1, YO, SSK, YO, S2KP, YO, K2tog); repeat from ( across the row; end with YO, K1, YO, SSK.
Note: The marker will move 1 st to left.
Row 9: K1, (K3, YO, SSK, YO, K3tog, YO); repeat from ( across the row; end with K4.
Row 11: K1, (K4, YO, S2KP, YO, K1); repeat from ( across the row; end with K4.
Row 13: K1, (K5, YO, SSK, K1); repeat from ( across the row; end with K4.
Row 15: Knit.
Row 17: K1, (K1, YO, SSK, K5); repeat from ( across the row; end with K1, YO, SSK K1.
Row 19: K1, (( (YO, SSK) twice, K4)); repeat from (( across the row; end with (YO, SSK) twice.
Row 21: K1, (K1, YO, SSK, K5); repeat from ( across the row; end with K1, YO, SSK, K1.
Row 23: Knit.
Row 25: K1, (K5, YO, SSK, K1); repeat from ( across the row; end with K4.
Row 27: K1, ((K4, (YO, SSK) twice)); repeat from (( across the row; end with K4.
Row 29: K1, (K5, YO, SSK, K1); repeat from ( across the row; end with K4.
Row 31: Knit.
Rows 33 to 46 (not charted): Repeat Rows 1 to 14.

The corrected chart 2 is attached on the designer’s project page: here

2. Hexagon stitch pattern (chart 3)
Written instructions for Row 16 should read:
Row 16 (WS): P2, YO, SPP, P5, P2tog, YO, P2.

Pattern on website has been updated in June 2019.