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Angel Shawl

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Get a taste of heaven on Earth with the Angel Shawl. This delightful knit lace shawl will look beautiful when wrapped around your shoulders on a cold day. Worked from the center out, youll be delighted as this shawl grows in front of your eyes. Knitters new to lace will be excited to know that, other than casing on, mostly basic stitches are used to create this lace. All of your hard work will be well worth the reward when you can proudly show off your finished project to all of your friends.

Intermediate

Knitting Needle Size4 or 3.5 mm, Circular Knitting Needles, Double-Pointed Knitting Needles (DPNs)

Yarn Weight(2) Fine (23-26 stitches to 4 inches)

Finished Measurements
40"/101.5cm diameter at widest from point to point


Materials and Tools

  • Debbie Bliss Angel (76% super kid mohair, 24% silk; 0.88oz/25g = 219yd/ 200m): 4 skeins, color #19—approx 876yds/800m of sport weight yarn
  • Knitting needles: 3.5mm (size 4 U.S.) 1 set of 4 DPNs, 16", 32", and 47" circular needles or size to obtain gauge
  • Stitch markers
  • Tapestry needle


Gauge
1 repeat of highlighted sts in chart 2 (14 sts/28 rows) = 3½"/9cm wide, 4½"/11.5cm tall, washed and blocked
Always take time to check your gauge.


Notes

  • Only odd-numbered rounds are charted; all even rounds are knit around.
  • 7-stitch nupps are used throughout.
  • Shawl is worked from the center out. For directions for Belly Button cast on, see techniques (page 17). Begin with DPNs or 2 circulars using your preferred method, switching to longer needles when able.


Special Abbreviations
4 into 1 decrease: Slip 2 sts together knitwise, k2tog, pass the 2 slipped stitches over this stitch. 4 stitches decreased into 1 stitch.

 

Chart 1

Chart 2

Chart 3

Chart 4

 

Instructions
Using the Belly Button cast on method (page 17), cast on 6 sts. Join to work in the round, place marker for beginning of round, and knit 1 round.
 

Round 1: (K1, yo, PM) repeat around—12 sts.
Round 2 and all even rounds: Knit around.
Round 3: (K1, yo) repeat around—24 sts.
Round 5: (K1, yo, k3, yo) repeat around—36 sts.
Round 7: (K1, yo, k5, yo) repeat around—48 sts.
Round 9: (K1, yo, k7, yo) repeat around—60 sts.

Work chart 1 rounds 1–14, repeating chart 6 times in each round—144 sts total.

Work chart 2 rounds 1–28 twice, repeating highlighted sts as needed to marker—480 sts total.

Work chart 3 rounds 1–20, repeating highlighted sts 5 times between each set of markers.
On round 20, remove all markers except beginning of round marker—672 sts total.

Work chart 4 rounds 1–9, repeating chart 42 times around.

Round 10: Bind off knitwise, using lace bind off (see page 20).


Finishing
Weave in all ends.
Block piece to measurements.

 

This gorgeous pattern is an excerpt from Brooke Nico's Lovely Knitted Lace

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I would love to give this a try, however I do not know how to read a chart. So I am stuck! unless you have a print-out of instructions.

I wish you would print thumbnail pictures of all the listed patterns on the daily Knit Picky Patterns email.

It would be nice if the charts were included on the same page or in some kind of print-ready format.

google is helpful ;-) for all of you who can't google: http://techknitting.blogspot.ie/2009/09/k == nitting-from-center-belly-buttons-and.html

Where are the instructions for Belly Button CO? Please provide. Thanks.

What is the Belly Button cast on? Do you have to buy the book to learn how to do it? If so, where can I buy the book?

Can you please resend with a Print ready format? The PDF is good. Thanks.

PDF's PLEASE

I agree, a print friendly version would be very helpful.

It looks beautiful and I can not wait to try it out. Thank you so much for the pattern

This is a free pattern so why isn't there a print friendly version?

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