SURRIS is a portmanteau of the words Suri and Cirrus. This shawl is inspired by the wispy nature of cirrus clouds and is imaginged in soft, semi-translucent lace weight suri alpaca.

Designed in collaboration with Irish Artisan Yarns and This Is Knit for the Festive Surprise Box 2024. Kits are available from here

Surris is a modified crescent shaped shawl. It is worked top down, beginning with an elongated garter tab cast-on. Single yarn over increases are made at each end of every row to create the crescent shape. The shawl is constructed with a simple rhythmic repeat of short row sections, knit with laceweight fluff and punctuated with simple rows of garter stitch in fingering weight yarn. Find one skein of fingering weight yarn with good meterage and use up scraps of laceweight yarn to knit each section in a different colour.

SIZE
Wingspan: 201 cm / 79”
Centre depth: 33 cm / 13”

YARN
4 ply / Fingering weight
402 metres / 440 yards

Lace weight fluff
A: 29 m / 32 yds
B: 47 m / 52 yds
C: 75 m / 82 yds
D: 103 m / 113 yds

NEEDLES

• One 100 cm (40”) or longer circular needle 3.75 mm (US 5)

SKILLS REQUIRED

• Garter tab cast-on
• German short rows