The Strawberry Lemonade Shawl is a playful small shawl designed to sit around your neck or shoulders without constantly slipping off!

It alternates panels of lace with soothing garter stitch for the perfect combination project.

I hope you have fun and don’t forget to tag @the_midnight_dyery in your Instagram posts, or to use the hashtag #MidnightMakeAlong to enter your work in progress for prizes!

Materials
1 x 3.75mm 80cm circular needle
Spare cable or stitch holder to hold live stitches
Darning needle
1 skein 4ply superwash merino / nylon yarn, 425m per 100g
The designer used 72g for the main shawl, leaving 28g for the optional applied i-cord edging, so you could make this shawl with 310m of any 4ply yarn.

Gauge
40 rows and 32 stitches over garter stitch on 3.75mm needles, blocked.
Note – the designer has a looser gauge than most so you may find it useful to try a 4mm needle to get gauge.

Schematic / Construction Notes

This pretty crescent shaped shawlette starts with a traditional top-down construction using the garter tab method.

It increases rapidly, creating a crescent moon shape that should drape around your neck and shoulders without sliding off. @After the initial sections worked back and forth, the stitches on the right hand side and central section are placed on hold, and the final stitches worked outwards to a blunt edge and bound off. The live stitches that have been waiting patiently now get their turn to be worked outwards in the opposite direction.

The result is a shallow crescent shape shawl with a wide enough wingspan to wrap around your neck, or drape over your arms, for the perfect summer evening accessory. Note that this shawl benefits from vigorous blocking.

I’ve set out the pattern in table form, allowing you to keep easy track of which row you’re on / have finished and the stitch count for each row.

If you’re new to, or even experienced with, lace knitting, I always advise using a lifeline to ensure that, if you make a mistake, you don’t lose those all-important yarn overs when trying to work back. For a quick 2-minute video on how to use a lifeline, click here.