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Welcome to the Holbrook Shawl KAL!!!!! We are going to have a lot of fun knitting the Holbrook shawl together. There are lots of new skills to be learned on this one!
Holbrook is a top-down, semi-circular lace shawl with a lovely, wide knitted-on border that was designed to be knitted in fingering weight yarn, although the design is suitable for lace weight as well.
The Holbrook pattern is both charted (with the big, easy-to-read charts you all have come to know and love!) and written. So what this means is that anyone with a mind to can knit this shawl pattern, even those of you who have not yet learned to embrace charts!
This is an excellent pattern for those of you who have not worked a knitted-on border or done knitted lace with patterning on both sides. The pattern contains very clear instructions on how to do both, but it is my hope that the KAL will be motivation to step into some uncharted waters for some of you.
Blocked Size: Pattern size is blocked to 66 x 26. The blue shawl pictured relaxed after a couple of weeks to 64 x 24. Holbrook is easy to make larger or smaller by adding repeats of a 6-row chart.
Yardage required: The blue shawl pictured used 650 yards of fingering weight on US #5 (3.75mm) needles. Some test knitters used up to 700 yards on the same needle size. For those of you wishing to make a shawl larger than the pattern size: If using two average-sized skeins (400-450 yds) of sock/fingering yarn, you could probably increase the size up to about 70 across the top--but this would really depend on your yarn, gauge and needle size.
Test knitters that used lace weight achieved a similar size using 630-700 yards of lace weight on smaller needles and knitting more repeats of the main chart.
How to get the pattern: The pattern is $6, and is available by either:
1) Purchasing it on the Craftsy.com website for immediate download, which is the quickest way to get the pattern. At the bottom left of this post (right above where it says Reply), you will see a link to my Craftsy store where the pattern may be purchased via PayPal.
1) PMing me here with Holbrook Shawl Pattern in the subject and providing your email address in the body of the PM. (Please do not post your email address directly on this topic for your security.) I will then generate a PayPal money request, Pay Pal will email you, you can pay them with or without a PayPal account, they tell me you paid, and I email you the pattern.
Please feel free to PM me if you have further questions about the pattern or the KAL.
Here are a few pics of Holbrook:
Holbrook is a top-down, semi-circular lace shawl with a lovely, wide knitted-on border that was designed to be knitted in fingering weight yarn, although the design is suitable for lace weight as well.
The Holbrook pattern is both charted (with the big, easy-to-read charts you all have come to know and love!) and written. So what this means is that anyone with a mind to can knit this shawl pattern, even those of you who have not yet learned to embrace charts!
This is an excellent pattern for those of you who have not worked a knitted-on border or done knitted lace with patterning on both sides. The pattern contains very clear instructions on how to do both, but it is my hope that the KAL will be motivation to step into some uncharted waters for some of you.
Blocked Size: Pattern size is blocked to 66 x 26. The blue shawl pictured relaxed after a couple of weeks to 64 x 24. Holbrook is easy to make larger or smaller by adding repeats of a 6-row chart.
Yardage required: The blue shawl pictured used 650 yards of fingering weight on US #5 (3.75mm) needles. Some test knitters used up to 700 yards on the same needle size. For those of you wishing to make a shawl larger than the pattern size: If using two average-sized skeins (400-450 yds) of sock/fingering yarn, you could probably increase the size up to about 70 across the top--but this would really depend on your yarn, gauge and needle size.
Test knitters that used lace weight achieved a similar size using 630-700 yards of lace weight on smaller needles and knitting more repeats of the main chart.
How to get the pattern: The pattern is $6, and is available by either:
1) Purchasing it on the Craftsy.com website for immediate download, which is the quickest way to get the pattern. At the bottom left of this post (right above where it says Reply), you will see a link to my Craftsy store where the pattern may be purchased via PayPal.
1) PMing me here with Holbrook Shawl Pattern in the subject and providing your email address in the body of the PM. (Please do not post your email address directly on this topic for your security.) I will then generate a PayPal money request, Pay Pal will email you, you can pay them with or without a PayPal account, they tell me you paid, and I email you the pattern.
Please feel free to PM me if you have further questions about the pattern or the KAL.
Here are a few pics of Holbrook:
I can't wait to get home work and get started!
