Butterfly Shawl
This is a triangle shawl with elongated front ‘wings’, named for the lovely acrylic yarn from Hobbii.com that inspired me to create a unbirthday present for a friend. Having finished it, of course I had to write out the pattern (which I made up as I went along, more or less).
Butterfly Shawl
For this one, I used Butterfly acrylic yarn from hobbii.com; it’s smooth, antipill, and has a lovely hand when knitted up. This particular yarn is colorway #1, and as I knitted away and saw how the colors would fall, I switched from green => pink to green => yellow. Feel free to experiment and change everything about this pattern to suit your own tastes!
Yarn: Two balls of Butterfly Acrylic, each 200g = 500m (7 oz = 547); shawl uses about 900m.
Needles: 5.5mm circular needles (US size 9; UK size 5)
Gauge is immaterial. This pattern+yarn made a shawl large enough for a medium-sized woman.
Note: On all right side rows, the edge is k2, yo (or, on the other end, yo, k2).
One all wrong side rows, the edge is k2, m1fb, or reversed on the other end.
You are increasing SIX stitches every TWO rows.
Stitches: K = knit p = purl
yo = yarn over m1fb = knit 1 to front and then to the back of stitch
Cast on/set up:
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Cast on three stitches.
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Knit six rows.
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DO NOT TURN work to the other side. Instead, turn the work 90° clockwise (the long side); pick up and knit three stitches (between the ridges).
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Turn through 90° again; pick up three stitches on the cast-on edge for a total of 9 stitches.