Now available as a single pattern in Yamagara Knits Ravelry Store.

A shawl inspired by the predawn sound of birds and the shape and lightness of feathers

Published in Making Magazine Issue no. 11 Dawn

The dawn chorus is the harbinger of dawn. It is an efflorescence of sound by birds as the light arrives. Inspired by the predawn sound of birds and the shape and lightness of feathers, Chorus Wrap is a shawl knitted with lace-weight yarns in single and double strands to layer colors of the sky at dawn and to create different levels of translucency and lightness.

If you love this sample…Making made a kit for it, in two colorways! Go here.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

84½“ / 215 cm wingspan and 18” / 46 cm deep at widest point

YARN

Spinni by Isager (100% wool; 50 g / 330 yd / 300 m)
– 3 skeins in color 6S (MC)
– 1 skein in color 39S (CC1)
– 1 skein in color 1S (CC2)
– 1 skein in color 101 (CC3)
– 1 skein in color 16 (CC4)
OR in lace weight yarn:
990 yd / 900 m in MC
330 yd / 300 m in each of 4 CCs

NEEDLES

One 32” 80 cm circular needle in size US 6 4 mm, or size to obtain gauge

GAUGE

19 sts and 38 rows = 4” / 10 cm in Garter St, with 2 strands of
yarn held together, after blocking.
21 sts and 31 rows = 4” / 10 cm in St st, with 1 strand of yarn,
after blocking.