I’m very happy with how this turned out. Was a bit concerned if holding these three strands together would end up being too much - but it turned out perfect, not too thick at all.

Measurements:
Measurements before blocking (without tassels):
Width/wingspan approx. 163 cm (64.2 inches).
Length from neck down approx. 79 cm (31.1 inches).
Measurements after blocking, relaxed (without tassels):
Width/wingspan approx. 186 cm (73.2 inches).
Length from neck down approx. 94 cm (37 inches).
The tassels (tassel + icord) each measure: 21 cm (8.3 inches). The tassel itself measures 10 cm (3.9 inches).

Modifications:
I prefer my shawls to cover a bit more of my lower back, so therefore I modified this to a more traditional triangular shaped shawl.

Body
Started with a garter tab:
Cast on 2 stitches, knit 5 rows, pick up 2 stitches in garter ridges + pick up 2 in cast-on row = 6 stitches total.
Row 1 (WS): Knit
Row 2 (RS): K2, m1, k1, kfb, m1, k2 = 9 stitches
Row 3 (WS): knit
Row 4 (RS): K2, (pm), m1, k1, m1 (pm), k3 (cs), (pm), m1, k1, m1, (pm), k2
Row 5 (WS): knit
Row 6 (RS): K2, (sm), m1, k3, m1 (pm), k3 (cs), (pm), m1, k3, m1, (pm), k2
Row 7 (WS): knit
Repeat the method as described in row 6 and 7 until reaching desired number of stitches.
(pm=place marker, sm=slip marker, cs=center stitches, m1=make 1).

Stripe Pattern:
The stripe effect is obtained by alternating knitting with all three strands (Blackhill + Bourettesilke + Super Kid Mohair) and only two strands (Bourettesilke + Super Kid Mohair).

Border:
I started knitting the border according to pattern, but didn’t like the uneven edge it created along the top edge of the shawl (see the 17th picture), so I frogged back and started over - this time omitting the first row right after the cast on. This resulted in a much more nicely aligned edge - see 16th picture.

Border is a series of repeats each using up 6 stitches from the body of the shawl - I therefore continued the ‘Stripe Pattern’ until I had a total of 318 stitches (157+(3+m1)+157) = a total of 53 border repeats. To create symmetry I purposely aimed at an uneven number of repeats since I want the middle of the border to match up with the middle of a border repeat.

Used needles size 5.0 for the shawl and 4.5 for the border. The reason for changing needle size when starting the knit on border is that row gauge and stitch gauge is not the same, so going down in size will ensure that the border ends up laying nice and flat.
Used a needle size 5.5 for the bind off stitches on the border.

When starting to knit the border I was a bit unsure as to from which side of the shawl (the live stitches) to start knitting when i started the border pattern - I tried both sides - and decided I liked the one best where the eyelet rows (the YO’s) were knit from the wrong side of the shawl (the right side of the shawl is facing your body when holding it in your left hand ready to start knitting the very first shawl stitch together with the border) - see the difference on the 13th picture.
(Cast on 9 stitches for the border, knit 8 stitches, k1tbl+1/shawl.)

Tassels:
I used this tutorial for making the tassels - it’s in Danish, but the pictures do the most of the talking :-)
There’s another great one here (in english)
The 3 stitch icords were knit on needles size 3.5 mm.
I made the tassels extra big.

Didn’t crochet along the top edge.

Yarn amounts used:
I washed the Blackhill and the silk yarn before knitting to get rid of spinning oils etc. Yarn weights are after washing.

Body:
Blackhill, lammeuld: 45 grams
Bourettesilke 6/1: 82 grams
Super Kid Mohair: 51 grams

Border:
Blackhill, lammeuld: 27 grams
Bourettesilke 6/1: 27 grams
Super Kid Mohair: 17 grams

Tassels:
Blackhill, lammeuld: 6 grams
Bourettesilke 6/1: 6 grams
Super Kid Mohair: 4 grams

Yarn used - total:
Blackhill, lammeuld: 78 grams
Bourettesilke 6/1: 115 grams
Super Kid Mohair: 72 grams

The beads (tiddlers) on the tassels are made by Petra from ScorchedEarthonEtsy on Etsy.

The shawl pin is made by nicholasandfelice on Etsy.

Shawl was entered as #7/12 in 12 shawls in 2013/12 shawls forever

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