This shawl is a great way to combine lace and beautiful multi-coloured or speckled yarns. Often a pretty multi-coloured yarn competes with the lace motif, but there is no chance of that happening when the lace is worked in a solid colour and the multi-coloured yarn is knit in a delightfully simple linen stitch. The linen stitch breaks up lines of colour admirably, while creating a beautiful textured background for the lace. If you’re anything like me, you can’t resist those speckled beauties from you favourite Indy yarn dyer, well now there’s a way to use them!

This is a relatively easy lace knit, and the pattern has both written instructions for the lace and charts.

Techniques:
The stitch patterns used in this design are relatively easy to work. Lace stitches you will use are yarn overs, k2tog, ssk, and sk2p.

Instructions:
This pattern includes both charts and written instructions for the charts. You do not need to be able to read the charts to complete this project,

Yarn:
Colour 1 (the speckle): Skein Merino Silk Lace in Early Morning Mist. I used approximately 550 metres (547 yards)

Colour 2: (the solid): The Woolen Rabbit Chantilly Lace, undyed. I used approximately 550 metres (600 yards).

If you wish to use a solid colour throughout the entire shawl (which would look lovely), you will need approximately 1050 total metres (1148 yards) of yarn.

Optional Beads: If you wish to add beads to the lace section. Attach them to every sk2p in the charts. You will require approximately 290 size 8 seed beads for this.

Please note. I used 3.5 mm needles throughout this shawl because I didn’t want the linen stitch to look stretched out. Because my tension goes even looser when I work lace I didn’t need to use bigger needles for lace, but if you are a tight knitter you may want to switch to a larger needles for charts B and C, once you have finished working the linen stitch sections.

(A minor clarification to the original pattern: Cast on with colour 1 (the colour you use in Section One: half linen stitch))