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Counting Rainbows Shawl
Finished Size
Wingspan – 64” / 163 cm
Center Depth- 30” / 77 cm
Yarn
1428 yards / 1306 meters of heavy fingering or sport weight yarn (Held Double)
Equivalent to approximately 714 yards / 653 meters of DK weight yarn (may vary depending on gauge)
Six 20 g / 80 yards/ 74 meters mini skeins of fingering weight yarn 480 yards / 440 meters / 120 g (Held Double)
Equivalent to approximately 240 yards / 220 meters of DK weight yarn (may vary depending on gauge)
Suggested Yarn
MC: 4 skeins of Hawthorne Fingering Kettle Dye Yarn in Slate, 357 yards per 100 g- 1,350 yards/1235 meters/370 g (Held Double)
CC: Pride Rainbow Mini Fingering Weight Yarn by Whimzee Stitches- 96 yards / 88 meters/ 22 g each (Held Double)
A- Purple - 50 yard / 46 meters / 12 g
B- Blue - 50 yard / 46 meters / 12 g
C- Green - 46 yards / 44 meters / 11 g
D- Yellow - 46 yards / 44 meters / 11 g
E- Orange - 44 yards / 40 meters / 10 g
F- Red - 44 yards / 40 meters / 10 g
Suggested Needle
US 8 (5 mm) - 32” circular
Notions
Tapestry Needle
Scissors
Gauge
16 sts and 40 rounds = 4” / 10 cm
measured over blocked garter
16 sts and 20 rounds = 4” / 10 cm
measured over blocked two-color brioche
Construction Notes
This shawl is knit from the bottom up because I always lose steam near the end of shawls once the rows start getting long, but being able to attack the long rows with the energy and excitement of casting on a new project makes this shawl fly off the needles! The brioche sections are knit in small sections that are perfect to practice setting up brioche rows. This shawl is also fully reversible due to the nature of brioche and garter stitch.
In Pattern Support
- Written Instructions
- Video Tutorials
Techniques
- Two-color Brioche
- Garter Stitch
- Right-Leaning Brioche Decrease
- I-cord cast on
- K2tog
- I-cord Edging
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- First published: July 2020
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