Tumbling Blocks

A half-circle shaw with a clear textural lace pattern resembling tumbling blocks. The texture really stands out after blocking, and it's best shown in solid or very slow gradient yarn - busy color changes will hide the structure.

The pattern difficulty level is intermediate; there are no difficult stitches or techniques. Ability to read lace charts is critical, as the main pattern is charted; there are no written row by row instructions.

The hand-knitted shawl on the photo is also available for purchase. 

Size is flexible. The prototype used a full 250 g / 1000 m skein of fingering weight yarn on 4 mm needles and measured over 220 cm wingspan with 80 cm depth after blocking (it grew a lot). I worked 80% or the charted rows (ran out of yarn too soon).  Knit all the rows for a larger shawl - you will likely need more than 250 g / 1000 m of yarn.

You'll need:

• 3.5–4.5 mm circular needles with a long cable (whatever feels comfortable)

• Fingering weight yarn with good stitch definition - solid or very slow gradient recommended. For the prototype, I used full 250g skein of YarnArt Flowers Alpaca blend plus a little bit of matching blue for the border.

• Two stitch markers 

Gauge: flexible; not tighter than ~22 sts × 28 rows = 10 cm (4").

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