This “candlelight” lace motif has been restructured from its original rectangular shape into a biased fabric. One of this pattern’s features is the beauty of its reverse side, where the embossed “candlelight” motif appears in knit stitches against a background of purled stitches.

This shawl has many interesting qualities. This lace is reversible and can be worn on either side. The two sides are knit separately, the motif and shaping are mirrored. Then, they are grafted together in the center to form a “V” shaped shawl that can be worn many different ways. This shawl is edged with a simple garter stitch border. The candlelight lace pattern is written, not charted.

This shawl is for the adventurous knitter. This pattern uses six different decreases: k2tog, k3tog, ssk, sssk, CDD and P-CDD (a purl side version of the CDD - directions for doing this decrease are under Techniques). It also uses Grafting in Pattern to join the two sections together.