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Watch the flyways while wrapped in a light and pretty demilune shawl. Paddock Shawl’s arcs of lengthening lozenges, expanding with concentric increases according to Elizabeth Zimmermann’s half-pi method, form a richly textured plumage. The garter-based fabric has no wrong side, and the half-circle shape laps the shoulders comfortably and stays in place. Slipped garter selvedges create a smooth and tidy top edge; block out scalloped points or leave the trailing edge straight according to your preference. Paddock Shawl is written for both Vale and Loft, so you can choose a delicate, refined effect or a larger farmstead-style shawl.

Construction

The shawl is worked from the top center outwards, beginning with a garter tab. It uses traditional half Pi Shawl construction (Elizabeth Zimmermann’s method) and is shaped using concentric sections of increases. As the radius of the shawl is doubled, so is the length of the curved perimeter.

Yardage

Laceweight Version
1200 total yards of laceweight wool yarn

Fingering Version
1075 total yards of fingering weight wool yarn

Yarn

Laceweight Version
3 skeins Brooklyn Tweed Vale (100% American Rambouillet Wool; 450 yards/50 grams)
Photographed in color Arabesque

Fingering Version
4 skeins Brooklyn Tweed Loft (100% American Targhee-Columbia Wool; 275 yards/50 grams)
Photographed in color Bale

Gauge

Laceweight Version
24 stitches & 33 rows = 4” in chart patterns, after blocking

Fingering Version
20 stitches & 26 rows = 4” in chart patterns, after blocking

Note: Finished gauge will vary once shawl is blocked into circular shape.

Needles

Laceweight Version
One each 16” and 40” circular needles in size needed to obtain gauge listed
Suggested Size: 3¼ mm (US 3)

Fingering Version
One each 16” and 40” circular needles in size needed to obtain gauge listed
Suggested Size: 3¾ mm (US 5)

Finished Dimensions

Laceweight Version
28” 71 cm tall; 56” 142 cm wide

Fingering Version
27” 68.5 cm tall; 54” 137 cm wide
 
Measurements taken from relaxed fabric after lace blocking.

Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern:

Felted Join
Icelandic Bind Off

Skill Level

3 out of 5

Please note: the stitch patterns for this garment are charted only.