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alva / Sarah Pope
This beauty of a shawl is enormous and features both cartridge rib bands and fun knit/purl motifs for a thoroughly enjoyable knit. Shaped to fit comfortably and stylishly around the shoulders, this piece is almost impossible not to want to cast on and wear immediately after blocking.
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS:
approx 80" [203 cm] wingspan and 36" [91.5 cm] at deepest point
YARN:
chickadee / chanterelle 118 / 10 skeins
NEEDLES:
32" circular in size US 5 [3.75 mm]
GAUGE:
25 sts and 33 rows = 4" [10 cm] in stockinette stitch, after wet-blocking
SKILLS REQUIRED:
Long-tail cast on, cables (link provided); decreasing. Charts and line-by-line instructions included.