Goldfoil is a triangular version of my popular crescent shaped Landskein shawl pattern, which features a beautiful stitch pattern I created that reminds me of landskeins. The word landskein itself refers to the braided horizon lines created by hills on a hazy day, while goldfoil is a term coined by Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to describe a sky lit spectacularly by lightening. Evocative and poetic, words like these recognise and record the relationship we humans have with nature, as a participant in nature, rather than simply as an observer of it.

Materials
I used almost an entire 800 metre skein of laceweight yarn, so if you are off gauge or knit particularly loosely you may require more yarn.
I usually knit lace with 3.75 mm needles, but choose a needle size based on your own gauge and yarn. Select a second needle size half a mm smaller for the cast on and chart A. Chart B is knit in the larger needles. This is to compensate for the tendency for cables to ‘pull in’ the fabric.

Optional Beads
I’ve added a few beads to mine, but if you’re not so inclined these are easily omitted. You may also choose to use nupps on the last 6 RS rows of the shawl, instead of beads.

Techniques
This shawl includes lace stitches and cables. You must be able to read a chart to complete this project.

Size
90 cm deep at the centre by 190 cm wide at the top edge..