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I have always thought of myself as a Fall/Winter person. I love to get cozy with all the woolens and a hot beverage to watch the fall colors come to life outside. After all the dark and rainy days in the typical PNW year, I forget how much I crave the sun and the heat on my skin. The return of the sun, lightens my mood and I want to be in the sunshine at all times! This shawl is inspired by the return of the sun and how it fills me with so much joy while it is out and shining here in the PNW. The crescent shape of this shawl provides the perfect backdrop for my depiction of the sun, casting down its rays. The generous wingspan is like being wrapped up in a warm hug. I envisioned two-color brioche as a fun way to have the rays radiate from the sun.

My Sunray Shawl is knit from the top down beginning with a Garter Tab Cast-On. This shawl is worked back and forth utilizing soothing garter stitch and fun two-color brioche. Garter stitch is used to create the sun at the top of the shawl and throughout the body to portray the sky-like background. Two-color brioche is incorporated to mimic sunrays coming down the body of the shawl. As the shawl expands, additional two-color brioche ‘rays’ are worked to continue with the theme of the shawl. Brioche is continued in the border and finished with an I-Cord Bind-Off. Increases are made on both the right and wrong side of the edges to create a crescent shape. Long shawl wings are created this way to easily wrap around the body to provide warmth and stability.

Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Skills needed are: Garter Tab Cast-On, basic increases, basic brioche (brk/brp/sl1yo), working a large amount of stitches flat, and I-Cord Bind-Off.

Materials:
Fingering weight yarn, C1: 1 skein, C2: 1 skein, C3: 1 skein
Sample Shown in Wildstar Fibers Supernova sock (85% Superwash Merino/15% Nylon), 437 yards/400 meters per 100 gram skein

YARDAGE/METERAGE NEEDED
NOTE Yardage/meterage used is dependent on matching your gauge to pattern. Yardage/meterage given above is for the shawl only, swatch not included.
Some test knitters ran out of yarn as their brioche + garter gauge did not match the patterns. Please purchase more C2 & C3 if you think this might happen to you also.

Fingering weight yarn: total approx. yarn used: 984 yards/900 meters
C1: colorway Juice: 26 grams/114 yards/105 meters
C2: colorway Gilded Cage: 100 grams/435 yards/398 meters
C3: colorway Wunderkin: 100 grams/435 yards/398 meters

Needles:
Circular needle is used to accommodate large amount of stitches
3.25 mm/US# 3 40 in/100 cm circular, or size needed to obtain gauge

Notions:
44 stitch markers for brioche sections
1 removable marker to denote right side of fabric
Blocking mat & blocking pins or wires
Tapestry needle

Gauge:
23 sts/48 rows= 4 in/10 cm in Garter Stitch worked flat using 3.25 mm/US# 3 circular after blocking in fingering weight yarn
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22 sts/56 rows= 4 in/10 cm in Garter + Two-Color Brioche Stitch worked flat using 3.25 mm/US# 3 circular after blocking in fingering weight yarn

Size Information: One Size
Sunray Shawl is a crescent shaped shawl with a long wingspan to easily wrap around your neck and shoulders. It is knit up in a loose gauge to give it wonderful drape.

Finished Measurement:
A. Total wingspan: 80 in/200 cm
B. Center depth: 16 in/40 cm

This pattern has been professionally tech edited and tested.
Tech Editing: Whena Clayton // Photography: Lupine Marshak

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