Beech Leaf Shawl

This graceful lace knitting shawl features the beautiful beech leaf lace pattern and is designed for two weights of yarn, a fingering or laceweight.

Stitches are cast on for the bottom edge and rows become shorter as decreases at the centre panel and side edges create a triangular shape. Lace is worked on one side only in stocking stitch, except for lines of faggotting. At the end, stitches are picked up around all edges and a simple garter picot-point lace edging is worked. NOTE: Fiddlesticks Knitting patterns are charted. Recommended for Intermediate to Advanced lace knitters.

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Recommended yarns:

Fingering: Approximately 760 m fingering-weight yarn (our sample worked in a 50% wool, 30% silk, 20% nylon blend;
50 g / 160 m)

Laceweight: 3 balls Fiddlesticks Knitting Exquisite (50% mulberry silk, 50% merino wool) each ball approx. 50 g / 500 m

Finished sizes:

Fingering: 72 inches across top and 33 inches deep

Laceweight: 80 inches across top and 39 inches deep

Needles:

Fingering: 4 mm (US 6) 32-inch circular needles

Laceweight: 3.5 mm (US 4) 32-inch circular needles

or sizes needed to obtain gauge