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Cozy triangle shawl with simple intarsia colorwork. Free Download PDF
YARN GAUGE NEEDLES MATERIALS SIZE FINISHED MEASUREMENTS Pattern updated Dec 10, 2010. |
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Cozy triangle shawl with simple intarsia colorwork. Free Download PDF
YARN GAUGE NEEDLES MATERIALS SIZE FINISHED MEASUREMENTS Pattern updated Dec 10, 2010. |
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Oooh – I wish I had this for my trip!
I think this project is just wonderful. The hard part is what colors to use. Karen
Karen, that really is the hard part! I’m making one right now in rustic dark red and olive green for Christmas. I think it will be fun to wear!
I love your projects, pretty, cool, and easy. Not old and frumpy
heehee
xo from colorado
v8
I’m blown away by your artistry, talent and designs. Thank you so very much for sharing patterns with us. I am knitting the Belle Fingerless Gloves for my teenage daughter…she’s so excited about them. She chose cobalt blue uni-color with bright red buttons (it so matches her personality). Thank you again!
What a lovely thing to say! Thank you, and Happy Knitting!
Yes, I would. I like the fact that is is two colors. I might use two different colors than the shawl in the picture, but I like how it looks. I can use something like that because in the winter I am always cold in the office. This would keep me nice and warm. Just perfect!!
I think this pattern looks lovely ,am going to knit for my new dayghter-in-law,wont be for little while
I do soooo wish all my knitting sites had not gone to PDF. I do not have a printer – cannot copy/paste to my email, cannot manage EVER to see the entire pattern. This is sooo beautiful – my son’s favorite color is black, his lady’s is purple – it really caught my eye – but……… can’t get the pattern.
There are links in the post that also go to the pattern pages as images, not pdfs. I put these up in all my posts for knitters who cannot access pdf files.
Here they are again for you:
View Pattern Page 1 / Page 2
Done in School/College colors
Make a great gift
gorgous can’t wait to make it and the colors just great
This is the first knitting pattern that I cannot wait to start and the colors as shown are just stunning. Thank you for generously sharing it. DW
Picking favorite colors will be difficult. I’ll have to make several!
I will absolutely make this scarf for myself and for my friend. It’s very different,unusual and fabulous. I can’t wait to begin.
I think this is striking, and I will knit it, either for me or for my daughter.
I cannot find the pattern for this Two-Face Shawl and I love it! HELP!
The pattern is available at the top of the post. There are links (they should be red) that you can click – there is a downloadable pdf file and there are also links to the individual pattern pages.
Thank you for this lovely pattern, Iwill be Knitting it for my girls for Christmas gifts.
I love this pattern !! I plan on shopping for yarn and starting this scarf tomorrow
Love this pattern! Looks like it would be a perfect thing to throw over the shoulders on cool evenings.
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Marvellous and trendy. I can’t wait to make one for myself and turn many heads. Thanks a million for sharing the pattern.
i’m in love…. i have to make one
aaah…
xo from finland
OH my goddess, I have been searching for a site like yours! I love your vision. Many things I come across are usually very… frumpy, and as a beginner knitter that likes things with an ‘edge’ to them, I couldn’t exactly knit by the seat of my pants. I just knew there was more out there.
I FINALLY found you on Ravelry through a very specific search. You have just opened up my world, Veronica. I can’t wait to get started on this! I’m using Charcoal and Claret (my favorite color) in a nice thick yarn.
Thank you!
-Alyce
Wow, thank you so much! Happy Knitting!
call me thick, but what am I not getting??? Have the stitch and working it, (looks nice) but am I missing where it tells me to work on one color and decrease to create the back?
Please help this laywoman
thank you
Karen
Sorry, Karen – I’m not really clear on what you are asking… both colors are worked at the same time. There are no decreases, only increases. The shawl is worked from the top (just behind the neck) down to the point at the bottom – the shawl fans out to form a triangle from the top down as you knit the increases down the middle and along the sides. Please let me know if I can help any further!
where are the instructions for the pattern two face? please get back to me so I can
make it thank you.
melva
Melva, the pattern is available at the top of the post. Click the links to either download a pdf file or to view the pattern pages in your browser.
Your Two-Face pattern is really unique and I’m looking forward to finishing to see the end product. However, in looking ahead to the finishing, am I missing something? I must have to pick up stitches all around the perimeter before starting the Garter Stitch Edge?? Easy enough done if that’s it, but could use any tips for doing it to make sure the look is good.
Hello, Gail!
You do not need to pick up any stitches for the garter stitch edge. Those stitches along the bottom two sides of the triangle are already live on your needle when it’s time to work the border. You will simply switch from stockinette to garter, then bind off. I hope that helps, please let me know if you have any more questions!
Veronica
Still confused. Read your comment to Karen (The shawl is worked from the top (just behind the neck) down to the point at the bottom – the shawl fans out to form a triangle from the top down as you knit the increases down the middle and along the sides.)
I’m assuming the “point at the bottom” is the beginning of knitting with the total 4 sts (two of each color). Then increasing 2 sts (middle and side) of each color, a total of 4 sts increased on every Row 3, knitting up until you reach the maximum width desired. Then you knit the 3 rows of Garter Stitch across that maximum width.
Now the question – Looking at the photos, how do the garter stitch rows get knitted at the “point at the bottom”? I compared my printed out pattern from a month? ago to the pdf version to click on at the top of this page, dated October 16, and they are the same. Also, what does “wm” mean? Haven’t found it anyplace else.
Sorry if I’m making this unnecessarily complicated.
No problem, Gail. I think I understand the confusion – the “point at the bottom” is NOT the start point. The point at the bottom is in the center of the ending rows. I have created a diagram to help explain the direction of the knitting:
It might seem a little strange at first, but try the directions as written and you will see the shawl take shape as you knit.
Also, “wm” means “work measures”.
Oh my gosh. I just finished knitting this and am at the point of knitting the garter stitch border. I couldn’t figure out how to pick up the stitches on the sides… I have knitted this thing entirely wrong. My starting point was the 2 st of each color and worked “out” until I had 101 of each color and then start the garter. How could this have happened? Do I have to pull all this out and start over?
Appygal
Okay, I need an explanation how the pointed end is not the bottom of the shawl? I thought I did follow the directions and the point is the bottom of the shawl. Can you somehow explain how it shouldn’t be the end?
Thank you,
Kathy
Hi. Thank you for the free pattern. i really have enjoyed working it. just writing to say that i had the same confusion as Gail and to say thank you for the above diagram, it made things clear. Just to let you know, i used to knit in high school and then life came and forgot about knitting. This is the first knitting project that i pick up after about 20 years and did it to the end. thanks for the inspiration.
Alba, that’s great! Thank you for the comment!
Thank you for your quick response, however, I AM through knitting and it appears that the point of the triangle was the beginning, not the end. When you start out with 4 st, and increase each row, it gets larger from the point and each row gets wider until there is 202 st across which is where I am. How did this happen? What have I done wrong? If I was to put a garter st border it would only be across the top, not the sides. I am terribly confused. It seems from looking at the diagram, you would have to CO 202 st and decrease to the point, or start at the point and increase, which I did, thinking I was following the pattern. Please help me with this.
Is the shawl still on your needles? I would recommend moving all the stitches to a long piece of scrap yarn, laying it out, and looking at it that way. The structure of it should become clear to once it is off the needles. The 101 sts of each color become the sides (with a garter stitch border), the kfb increases become the straight top edge. Try moving your knitting to the scrap yarn and let me know what you think then!
I don’t understand how I did this. I have my work on circular needles, so I can spread it out, but I do have one half black, and the other half purple with the yo’s down the center just like in the photo, however, when I look at the angle of the knitting my stitches look like they go toward the center instead of like yours, where they look like they go out to the sides.
I got some scrap yarn and tried to do this again and it started off the same: co 4, then, 6 st on 1st row, 10 st on 4th row, etc., purling odd rows and adding 4 st to every even row. It does look like the photo, but it still starts the triangle at the bottom and grows larger as I go up. The live stitches will end up being the top. Can you see what I am doing wrong?
The live stitches should end up at the bottom of the shawl – but when you are done knitting, when you have switched to garter stitch and then cast-off, the bottom becomes with sides. That’s how the shawl fans itself out naturally. I’m sorry I cant seem to envision what you are doing, other than that you are picturing the structure one way when in fact it might be the working up to be the opposite. Try again moving the work to scrap yarn, even though the stitches are able to spread out, I imagine the shawl is still not lying completely flat. That might help.
I have the exact same results as Appygal. I don’t see how the point can be the end and at the top. It really doesn’t make sense. And my shawl lays flat this way.
Thank you so much for your help. I know it is hard to describe when you cannot see what a person is doing. I am sure I’ll figure it somehow. I love the way this pattern looks.
I’m almost positive that what you are doing is seeing the start point and imagining it as the point at the bottom of shawl. It isn’t.
When you are done knitting, when you have cast-off and removed the shawl from your needles, the shawl will fan itself out and that start point will turn into a straight line with the kfb increases. You are seeing the shawl upside-down as you knit, so you are seeing the angle of the stitches from the wrong direction.
LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! I saw this a while ago, but was intimidated by the pattern so I did not download it. I saw something yesterday that reminded me of it and, once again, kicked myself for not saving it. I am a very happy gal now! Cannot wait to make it and keep warm in our cold climate.
Thank you so much for sharing your lovely work.
MJ
Love the shawl; a great knit for our 7’000 km vacation next month! Question: what is the abbreviation KFB? Thank you.
Hello, Margaret! kfb – (knit front and back): Knit into the front leg of one stitch, leave this stitch on the needle then knit into the back loop of this stitch. Drop both stitches off needle. One increase made.
A list of all my abbreviations is here, in case you need it. Thanks for the comment!
So, I’ve taken the shawl off the needles and place the live ones one a scrap yarn. I’ve laid it out and it looks like the picture you showed above.
My question, which hasn’t come up on the blog is…..does the garter finish stitch NOT go across the top (shoulders)? That is the only thing that makes sense although it wasn’t in the instructions.
Thanks,
Kathy
Hi Sandi!
There is no picking up stitches, anywhere. The garter stitch border is worked last, just keep knitting as you were for the body of the shawl and it will take shape.
Let me know if you need more help!
Veronica
I really can’t explain it better than this diagram I made:
If you still can’t picture it, I suggest moving all your live stitches to a very long piece of scrap yarn and laying it COMPLETELY flat – you will not be able to see the finished picture while there are needles in the work. Alternately, try knitting a very small example of my pattern ending in about 12 or so stitches. Cast-off and see if what you end up with makes sense. REMEMBER!!! The “point” will always appear to be on the wrong end while you are knitting. The shawl just sort-of magically transforms when you are finished.
This pattern is based on the very basic “top down triangle shawl” concept.
Here is a little more clarification of the different types of shawls (see the very first example): http://www.tricksyknitter.com/pages/posts/shawl-anatomy-363.php?g=23
REMEMBER!!! The “point” will always appear to be on the wrong end while you are knitting. The shawl just sort-of magically transforms when you are finished.
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