Description
Delicate tendrils reaching upwards across a trelliswork of lace.

Climbing plants often use tendrils to attach themselves to adjacent structures and support their growing form as they reach upwards towards the sunlight. In this delicate laceweight shawl, knitted cables form a network of twining tendrils reaching out across a lacey landscape, crisscrossing each other, and reaching out towards the bejeweled edge. This shawl features both lace and cable stitches, with a few lace stitches on wrong side rows as well. Optional beads bejewel the border, and the shawl is completed with a beaded picot edge.

Yarn
I used a luscious merino, silk and yak blended yarn, but any solid or semi solid lace weight yarn will work for this shawl.

Needles
3.75 mm 100 cm cable needle, or a needle size that gives you a desirable fabric in your chosen yarn.

Techniques
You must be able to read a chart to complete this pattern.
There are a few rows with lace worked on wrong side rows.
The shawl features a beaded picot edge (although beads are always optional).
Beading (optional). Beads are placed on decreases.
Knitting techniques include: yarn overs, decreases (ssk, k2tog, sk2p, s2kp2), cables (2/1 RC & LC, 2/2 RC & LC, 2/3 RC & LC),

A link to Fleegle’s centred double decrease worked on wrong side rows (worked on one row only: http://fleeglesblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/purl-decreases-demystified.html, scroll most of the way down the blog post to find the Central Double Purl Decrease.