Knit yourself a shawl that is worthy for the queen hidden inside you! Two colours of a luxurious yarn are combined to form bold cables, elegant lace and a feminine picot edging.

Wake up the Queen is worked from tip to edge. The cables could be worked without a cable needle.

The pattern includes written and charted instructions for making the shawl.

Yarn
Two different colours of fingering-weight yarn:
320 m / 350 yds of colour A
347 m / 380 yds of colour B

Sample uses Blacker Yarns Tamar Lustre Blend 4-ply (30 % wool, 18 % Teeswater wool, 18 % Wensleydale wool, 17 % Leicester Longwool wool, 17 % Cotswold wool; 347 m / 380 yds per 100 g skein): 1 skein in Red River (colour A) and 1 skein in Camel (colour B).

Skills required
• knitting and purling
• increasing and decreasing
• slipping stitches
• cable knitting