Cross-Country Skiing

This chevron and garter shawl with lace trim would be very nice all in one color, but it surely does provide a perfect slate for adding and blending colors!

The shawl is worked from narrow beginning to wide lacey end, to form a triangle. I admit, as the rows get longer - and longer! - it really is a lot like skiing uphill, but the color changes provide a welcome change of scenery, so it's easy to keep your momentum going.

And finally you're there, ready to start the lace, where you slalom gently from one edge of the valley to the next, first through one valley, then the next, then the next ...

... until all that's left is a stretchy picot bindoff. Whew, that was fun! Let's do it again!

Stats

Finished Sizes S (M, L): 80 (100, 120)" wingspan by 32 (39, 46)" depth. Samples shown in size M.

Yarn: Sunday Knits five-color gradients (light sport weight) which contain combinations of the following blends: Eden (100% merino), Nirvana (92% merino 8% cashmere), and Angelic (75% merino 25% angora):
1 full (1 full & 1 mini, 2 full) gradients for sizes S (M, L).

Samples shown in Sugar Maple and Winter's Morn gradients.

Substitute any light sport weight yarns that work nicely to gauge: 1010 (1550, 2200) yd / 920 (1420, 2010) m total yarn length. A roughly equal amount of each of 5 colors is suggested.

Needles & Notions: Size 6 US / 4 mm circular needles (with a cable long enough to hold 300 (370, 470) sts) or long straights; stitch markers of two different styles or colors.

Gauge: 23 sts and 35 rows = 4" in garter stitch.

Techniques used: Knitted cast on, simple lace (RS only), joining colors.

Pattern includes: Written instructions, glossary, linked tutorial, color sequence of sample is written and creating one's own colorway is also encouraged.

Knit Cross-Country Skiing

© Sunday Knits 2017. All rights reserved. Design and photography by Carol Sunday.
Edited by Sandra Whittaker.
Modeled by Rebekah Smith. Sugar Maple sample knitted by Sherry Smith.