Vængur — Striped Lace Shawl with Fringe Knitting Pattern
Triangular shawl with a six-colour fringe · Einband · sky blue stripes and ash-heather lace meeting in a V · one size
Pattern only: the English PDF, emailed to you right after purchase. Yarn is not included.
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- Lopi 32, no. 23 — Guðrún Ragna Sigurjónsdóttir
- One size · 154 × 73 cm
Guðrún Ragna Sigurjónsdóttir’s triangular shawl from Ístex’s Lopi 32 is knitted in fine Einband: bands of plain sky blue alternate with bands of ash-heather lace, and they meet in a V at the centre back. A long fringe in six colours hangs from the two sloping edges. One size — 154 cm across the top and 73 cm deep at the middle, without the fringe. All six colours are still made.
What you get
- The knitting pattern in English (PDF), emailed right after purchase — nothing is posted
- One size — 154 cm across the top, 73 cm deep at the middle
- One chart for the lace and the stripes, with a key, and the fringe instructions
- Yarn and needles are not included. The kit has this pattern and all the yarn: the Vængur kit
Yarn used in the pattern (not included)
Einband — 50 g balls · one size
A 1026 ash heather — 2
B 9281 sky blue — 2
C 1767 lavender — 1
D 1765 yellow — 1
E 9128 blush — 1
F 9268 lime — 1
Size
One size, measured after washing: 154 cm (60¾″) across the top and 73 cm (28¾″) long at the middle, without the fringe.
Gauge
17 sts × 30 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 4 mm needles.
Needles
4 mm (US 6) circular needle, 80 cm — the shawl is knitted back and forth on it
3½ mm (US E-4) crochet hook — for pulling the fringe through
You will also need
A stitch marker for the middle stitch, a spare needle for joining the last 7 stitches, a tapestry needle, and pins for stretching the shawl into shape (the pattern suggests them) — the pattern’s list leaves these out.
How it is knitted
Knitted back and forth on one circular needle. You cast on 345 stitches in ash heather, mark the middle stitch and knit one row; by our reading of the chart and the photos, the cast-on edge becomes the two fringed sloping sides, with the middle stitch at the point, and you knit from there towards the straight top edge. The chart shows the right half of the shawl and only the right-side rows; the left half is worked as its mirror image, and the wrong-side rows are purled, except 3 garter stitches at each end. On every right-side row the middle stitch is decreased with a double decrease (the centre stitch on top), and near each end a double decrease and a yarn over take away one stitch, so the stripes run parallel to the fringed edges and meet in a V at the centre. Seven bands of ash-heather lace — yarn overs with k2tog, ssk and the double decrease — alternate with seven bands of plain sky blue stocking stitch. The last 7 stitches are divided on two needles and joined with a three-needle bind-off. The shawl is rinsed in lukewarm water, laid flat, and stretched a little and pinned to shape. Last, a fringe of three 36 cm strands, folded in half, is knotted through every cast-on stitch with the crochet hook, starting with yellow at the middle stitch and working out to the ends of both sides.
Design: Guðrún Ragna Sigurjónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 32 (no. 23), Ístex.
More info — download, yarn & help
How you get it — the pattern is a PDF in English. It is emailed to you right after purchase; nothing is posted.
Yarn — not included. We sell Ístex lopi by the ball in our yarn shop, or choose the kit, which has this pattern and all the yarn in one parcel.
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Why you'll love it
- Stripes that meet in a VSeven bands of ash-heather lace and seven of plain sky blue run parallel to the fringed edges and meet in a point at the centre back.
- Lace and plainOnly the ash-heather bands are lace — yarn overs and decreases on the right-side rows; the sky blue bands are stocking stitch, with only the shaping at the middle stitch and near each end.
- A six-colour fringeThree 36 cm strands, folded in half, are knotted through every one of the 345 cast-on stitches, in ash heather, sky blue, lavender, yellow, blush and lime.
- Fine Einband17 stitches to 10 cm on a 4 mm needle; the shawl takes 8 balls, and four of them — lavender, yellow, blush and lime — go only into the fringe.
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