ABOUT THE PATTERN
The Prairie Fire Shawl cables and lace represent the swirls and whirls and wind devils seen on the Midwest prairies during the annual controlled burns each Spring. This shawl is a simple top-down semi-circle shawl worked in fingering weight yarn. The Prairie Fire Shawl begins with stockinette stitch and simple yarn-over increases then flows into the real show stopper – the cable and lace panels.

Fire on the prairie is very much a source of renewal each spring when controlled burns clear away old growth and allow space for new growth to begin. Once the smoke clears, green shoots poke up from the charred soil almost immediately.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
One Size: About 62” wingspan by 20” deep (157.5 x 51 cm)

MATERIALS
Yarn: 900 yds (820 m) Fingering weight yarn
Sample shawl knit in 316 Dye Studio fingering weight 4-ply in the color Cranberry and used very nearly all of two 100 g skeins or about 850 yards. Test knitters used up to 900 yards.
Needles: Size US 2 (3.00 mm) circular(s) (or size needed to get gauge)
Notions: 14 stitch markers (one unique), dpn or cn for cables, tapestry needle

GAUGE
28 sts and 32 rows = 4” (10 cm) in St st after blocking