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Bring a little summer sun into your everyday with the Bajadas shawl. This happy triangular shawl will put a smile on your face with its enjoyable rows of garter stitch and fun mosaic colorwork. Dramatic triangles and chevron shapes break through the solid-colored fabric, inviting you to channel your most joyful palette. Bound by a sleek, corded edge, Bajadas is radiant in any of Peerie’s glowing Merino solids.

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Please note: the stitch patterns used for this accessory include written as well as charted instructions.

Construction

• This shawl is worked flat from the top down with increases worked along each edge and down the center spine.
• The solid-color stripes are worked in garter stitch; the colorwork stripes are worked in mosaic knitting.
• Slipped stitches along both edges create a knitted cord edging, and the shawl is finished with an optional Knitted Cord Bind Off and three optional tassels, one for each corner of the shawl.

Finished Dimensions

• 68”/172.5 cm wide wingspan; 29”/73.5 cm height at center line

Yarn

Brooklyn Tweed Peerie — 100% American Merino Wool (210 yards/192 meters per 50 grams)

• 5 skeins of Main Color (MC); 1 skein of Color 1 (C1); 2 skeins of Color 2 (C2)
• Photographed in colors Muslin (MC), Marigolds (C1), and Mesa (C2)

Yardage

• 880 yards/805 meters MC; 210 yards/192 meters C1; 320 yards/293 meters C2 of fingering weight wool yarn
• Note: You will have enough C2 yarn left over to make the 3 optional tassels for the shawl, which will require approximately 50 yards/46 meters of yarn. The skein count for C1 is exactly the listed yardage; consider adding an extra skein.

Gauge

• 23 stitches & 48 rows = 4”/10 cm in garter stitch, after blocking

Needles

One 32”/80 cm or longer circular needle in size needed to obtain gauge listed

• Suggested Size: 3.5 mm (US 4)

Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern:

Knitted Cord Tab Cast On
Reading Charts
Knitted Cord Bind Off
Video — Tassels
Blocking 101
Knitwear Care

Skill Level
3 out of 5: Intermediate