Description
This piece is very easy to make and wear; a goal of all September Knits patterns. The stitch pattern gives enough interest to keep going, but also repetitive enough to do while watching a show or listening to an audiobook. This larger shawl version of the Birch Creek Bandana is worn folded in half (as a triangle) and easily wrapped around the shoulders. The two-color brioche and garter stitch makes for a squishy reversible fabric.
Birch Creek Shawl is knit from the bottom up beginning with an I-Cord Cast-On. There are two options given for this I-Cord Cast-On. The sample used the ‘Provisional Cast-On Using a Crochet Hook Method Set-up Option’. This shawl is worked back and forth utilizing soothing garter stitch and fun two-color brioche. Slip all slipped stitches purl wise in this shawl. The shape of this shawl is a square. To wear this shawl, you will fold it in half on the diagonal to then wrap around your neck or shoulders. An I-Cord edging is worked throughout so all sides of this shawl have a neat I-Cord finish.
Adventurous Beginner/Intermediate
Skills Needed: Two-color garter stitch, basic two-color brioche (brk/brp/sl1yo), working a large amount of stitches flat, I-Cord Cast-On and or/ Provisional Cast-On using a Crochet Hook Method, and I-Cord Bind-Off.
Materials
Sport weight yarn. Total approx. yarn used, swatch not included in yardage:
- 1950 yards
- 1784 meters
Sample shown using The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers, Recollect (100% White & Black Rambouillet; 185 yds /169 m per 2 oz); 12 skeins total.
- Main Color: Pretty Shield; 1000 yards/915meters, approx. 6 skeins.
- Contrast Color: Dumplin; 950 yards, 869 meters, approx. 6 skeins.
NOTE: Yardage/Meterage used is dependent on matching your gauge to pattern.
Needles
- 3.5 mm/US# 4, 40 in/100 cm circular, or size needed to obtain gauge and accommodate large amount of sts
Notions
- 1 removable marker to denote right side of fabric (optional)
- 2 stitch markers for the borders
- 24 stitch markers for brioche sections
- Blocking mat & blocking pins or wires
- Crochet hook and waste yarn for Provisional Cast On (optional)
- Tapestry needle
Gauge
18 sts x 44 rows = 4 in/ 10 cm in Two-Color Garter & Brioche Stitch
Finished Measurements
Square Sides Measurement
- 50 in
- 127 cm
Diagonal Measurement (Folded)
- 70.75 in
- 180 cm
NOTE
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