Mirit by Sarah Jordan

Mirit

Knitting
November 2014
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
19 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette/garter stripe pattern, after blocking
US 6 - 4.0 mm
600 yards (549 m)
One size, approximately 48 in./122 cm wide along top edge and 22.5/57 cm deep at center
English
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A companion piece to Leventry, Mirit is a smaller shawl using a similar combination of texture and lace. Worked from the top down, starting with a garter tab, it begins with a section of alternated garter and stockinette stripes, then transitions into a lace band that combines eyelets with ribbing. The shawl is finished with an elegant picot bind off.

To knit this shawl, you need to know how to:

  • do a provisional cast on and pick up stitches from a garter edge (for the garter tab),
  • knit and purl when working flat,
  • do directional increases (m1L and m1R),
  • work lace stitches from a chart or written directions,
  • do basic decreases (k2tog, ssk, sk2p), and
  • do a cable cast on (for the picot bind off).

You will need approximately 300 yds./274.5 m of each of two colors of fingering weight yarn as well as four stitch markers and a yarn needle to complete the pattern.

The lace section of the shawl is both written and charted.

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