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Plot your course with Shoal, an ever familiar triangular shawl made anew with a unique asymmetrical side-to-side construction. Then, watch seas of garter stitch, plunging waves, and the wings of waterfowl come together in a beautiful triumvirate, balancing textural and openwork stitches for a beautiful seascape to drape about your shoulders.

Construction

This shawl is worked flat from the upper right point to the opposite side.

Yarn

Laceweight Version

• 2 skeins of Brooklyn Tweed Vale (100% American Rambouillet wool; 450 yards/50 grams)
• Laceweight sample photographed in color Vernal

Fingering Weight Version

• 4 skeins of Brooklyn Tweed Peerie (100% American Merino wool; 210 yards/50 grams)
• Fingering weight sample photographed in color Hammock

Yardage

Laceweight Version

• 815 total yards of laceweight wool yarn

Fingering Weight Version

• 710 total yards of fingering weight wool yarn

Gauge

Laceweight Version

• 24 stitches & 36 rows = 4″ in garter stitch with Size A needle, after blocking

Fingering Weight Version

• 28 stitches & 56 rows = 4″ in garter stitch with Size A needle, after blocking

Needles

Size A (for Main Fabric)

• One 32″ circular needle in size needed to obtain gauge listed
• Suggested Size, Laceweight Version: 4 mm (US 6)
• Suggested Size, Fingering Weight Version: 3¼ mm (US 3)

Size B (for Bind Off )

• One needle in knitter’s preferred style, two sizes larger than Size A
• Suggested Size, Laceweight Version: 5 mm (US 8)
• Suggested Size, Fingering Weight Version: 3¾ mm (US 5)

Finished Dimensions

Laceweight Version

• 70¾” [179.5 cm] by 65″ [165 cm] by 45¼″ [115 cm]

Fingering Weight Version

• 57¼” [145.5 cm] by 50″ [127 cm] by 34¼” [87 cm]

Measurements taken from relaxed fabric after blocking.

Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern:

• Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off

Skill Level

• 4 out of 5

Please note: the stitch patterns for this garment are charted only.