Pyrope Shawlette

To use every yard of a precious yarn—whether a souvenir skein or a luxury blend—in this flexible shawlette, divide your yarn carefully in half. You can accomplish this by measuring the length (counting the loops in a neatly wound skein or winding it on a niddy-noddy) or weight, then winding the yarn into two separate but equal balls. Or somewhat less accurately but without needing to weave in ends, you can just keep weighing the yarn as you go and stop increasing when you’re halfway through.

The pattern increases by one stitch every 4 rows, gradually growing from just the lace edging to an asymmetrical triangle, until you reach the midpoint of the yarn (or your preference). Then the pattern decreases by a stitch every four rows until you’re back to just the border and one spare stitch, hopefully with just enough yarn left over to weave in the tails.

Knitted Lace

The lace edging involves increases and decreases on every row. This might be intimidating if you’ve only worked lace with a plain wrong-side row before, but the strong diagonal elements make keeping your place simple.

Yarn Choice

The yak/silk laceweight gives the shawl incredible drape and softness. In a semisolid colorway, a slight color variation adds depth to the garter-stitch section, but a self-striping or highly contrasting yarn might compete with the lace elements. Work a swatch to see if you like it—and remember that as the garter-stitch portion expands and contracts, the width of any color changes will contract and expand.

MATERIALS AND PATTERN
Yarn Lisa Souza Yak/Silk Lace (50% white yak/50% mulberry silk; 765 yd [699 m]/3½ oz [100 g]; laceweight): 1 skein warm gold.
Needles Size 3 (3.25 mm). Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.
Notions Marker (m); tapestry needle.
Gauge 28 sts and 26 rows = 4" (10 cm) in garter st, after blocking.
Finished Size 114" wide and 17" deep.

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