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Libellula is worked sideways, starting from the upper left side and shaped with short rows to obtain a semicircular shape.
With an intelligent use of short rows, the shawl seems to flow naturally with no fixed geometrical scheme. Yet there is one! And makes this shawl very easy to work.
Libellula is made by 7 triangles, each shaped by 42 short rows with a 6 sts rhythm: every short row is 6 sts shorter than the previous one. To make things more interesting, short rows are grouped in groups of 3 repeats and then “scrambled”.
In this way, instead of a “geometric” shape of the triangle, a more “organic” result is achieved.

The short rows construction allow to work a 140 cm (71”) wingspan shawl without having to work on a zillion of stitches at the same time for the border.

It’s very easy to obtain a graceful cape or skirt out of this construction, but be careful to widen the semicircle hole on the top of the piece. This can be obtained adding “full” rows of knitting between the triangles.

Finished size: 140 x 65 cm (55 x 25.5”)