Milk & Honey Shawl

Milk and Honey is a light and luscious triangular shawl that uses a short row colour technique to create beautiful arrow shapes, like a dripping geometric swirl of honey in milk.

This shawl is knit from the bottom up and uses a simple but unusual construction.

(Bee shawl pin is co-designed with, and carved by, Tony Griffiths, out of beautiful British Columbian Arbutus wood.)

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Note: pattern includes only written instructions.

Size:

O/S (With instructions for adjusting the size)

Finished measurements after blocking:

Wingspan: 80”/203 cm
Depth (measurement from center of wingspan to bottom tip): 40”/101.5 cm

Suggested Yarn:

4 skeins total of Hedgehog Fibres Skinny Singles 100% Merino Wool Single Ply Fingering 400 yards/366 meters, Colour A (main) = 2 skeins in the Silence colourway, and Colour B = 2 skeins in the Pollen colourway;

or other fingering weight yarn, Colour A (main) = approx. 510-560 yards/466-512 meters, Colour B = approx. 425-470 yards/389-430 meters

Needles

Size 7 US/4 mm circular needle 32”/80 cm long, or size required to obtain gauge.

Gauge

In garter, without blocking:
24 sts/48 rows = 4”x 4”/10 x 10 cm.

Notions

Stitch marker(s), tapestry needle, blocking pins, blocking wires (optional, but recommended).

Required Skills

Basic increases and decreases
Wrong side decreases
Short-rows (wrap & turn or German)
Blocking