I knew when I saw the Silvia edging that I had to use it in a shawl. The edging has been adapted from a traditional Estonian lace pattern by Olga Jamovidova and Liina Gavrilo on their excellent blog ‘New lace – old traditions’. I then set out to find another stitch pattern to complement it and found ‘Crashing Waves’ in Debbie Tomkins’ stitch dictionary ‘250 Knitting Stitches’. A couple of small tweaks, the addition of some carefully placed beads, and ‘Silvia by the sea’ was born.

This is a semi-circular shawlette knit from the bottom up in one piece. The shaping is done using short rows in the stocking stitch section and it is finished with an i-cord cast off.

As written, the pattern includes both beads and nupps. You could, of course, omit the beads, or, if you find the nupps a bit too fiddly, replace them with beads.

Both a chart and written instructions are given for this pattern.

Yarn requirements
390m (427 yds) lace weight yarn

Other materials
188 size 8 seed beads
3¼ mm (UK10, US3) circular knitting needle, min 80cm long
(shawl is worked back and forth in rows but circular needle is
recommended due to large number of stitches)
0.75mm crochet hook (for placing beads)
Yarn needle

Techniques used
Knit and purl
Yarn overs and decreases (left, right and centred)
Knitted cast on
Placing beads (written instructions given)
Knitting nupps (written instructions given)
Short rows (written instructions given)
i-cord cast off (written instructions given)