Knit

Road Trip shawl

By Sarah Boulter

The pattern is written for a large shawl in four colours (200 x 90 cm when blocked) or a small shawl in three colours (135cm x 60 cm when blocked). The patterns are written as recipes with the key information in the notes.

Yardage Large shawl : Colour 1 : approx. 21 6m Colour 2: approx. 320m Colour 3: approx. 240m Colour 4: approx. 336m Small shawl: Colour 1 : approx. 110m Colour 2: approx. 45m Colour 3: appr ox. 320m

Yarn and Materials Designed for 4 ply yarn. Samples use: Malabrigo sock, Hedgehog Fibres Sock, Woolen Boon skinny Knit on 4mm needles throughout. Knit flat, but use a long cable (80cm) to accomodate width

Notes Cast on: Using Colour 1 cast on 2 stitches. Knit 10 rows on these two stitches. Next row: K2, rotate work by 90 degrees, pick-up and knit 5 stitches, rotate work by 90 degrees, pick-up and knit 2 stitches (from cast-on edge). You should have 9 stitches on your needle now. Set-up row: K2, PM, P2, PM, P1, PM, P2, PM, K2 Row 1 (RS): K2, SM, M1R, knit to marker, M1R, SM, Ktbl, SM, M1L, knit to marker, M1L, SM, K2 Row 2 (WS): K2, SM, Purl to marker, SM, P1, SM, Purl to marker, SM, K2. Stranded colour work: Remember to keep your strands loose enough that when the shawl is blocked into a triangle these sections won’t pucker. I like to slide my work down the right needle a bit so there is a natural stretch for your strands. Where a colour strands across more than three stitches catch that strand with working colour. Make a picot: Cast on 3 stitches, k2, slip furthest stitch on right needle over first stitch of right needle to cast o , *K1, slip furthest stitch on right needle over first stitch of right needle to cast o *, repeat * to *twice more, slip stitch on right needle back to le needle. Cast o : *K2tog tbl, slip stitch back onto le needle*, repeat * to * 13 more times, make a picot, *(K2tog tbl, slip stitch back onto le needle), repeat ( to ) 11 more times, make a picot*, repeat* to * 10 more times, (K2tog tbl, slip stitch back onto le needle), repeat (to) 25 more times, make a picot, *(K2tog tbl, slip stitch back onto le needle), repeat ( to ) 11 more times, make a picot*, repeat* to * 10 more times, (K2tog tbl, slip stitch back onto le needle), repeat ( to ) until one stitch remains, cut thread and pull through the loop.