The Shoulder Blade pattern is both written and charted.

Shoulder Blade is a small shawl designed to sit around the shoulders.

The lace will gently curve over the shoulder and around the back when tied or pinned closed. The shawl is also narrow enough that it can be used as a scarf wrapped around the neck. The shape is simple with the shawl starting from a provisional cast-on at center back and each side knit out from there.

The shawl starts with a provisional cast-on in the center of the lace and moves to the garter st ends. If you have more yardage than the original yarns, add extra lace pattern repeats to each half. Sharon, the test knitter had extra yardage and her shawl has 3 extra repeats of the lace. Red Sample.

The technique of working the shawl in two halves was dictated by working with a double strand sock blank that was dyed to have each half the same.

I am having fun right now playing with Wilton Icing Dyes and dyeing yarn. Shoulder Blade is perfect for using up single skeins of fingering weight yarns that don’t seem to go with anything else in your stash or for dying experiments that leave you with only one hank of yarn!

Gauge: - before blocking – 24 sts in 4 inches in garter st – after blocking – 20 sts in 4 inches in garter st