This shawl by Aimee Sher really captured our eyes for the lovely gentle combination of stitching and unspun thread.
It combines meandering paths of lace for a mindful experience, and begins with an entire field of lace, traversing across the paths made by the traveling knit stitches between curving eyelet sections. The shawl shrinks bit by bit in neat and subtle decreases along a single side for an asymmetrical triangle.
The easy-to-memorize lace creates rhythmic and comforting mindfulness for the knitter to ponder as they work.
When we decided to launch Bottoni Unspun this shawl seemed to be the ideal sample to show off the thread.
Finished Size
Width at cast on: 32” / 81 cm
Height of shawl: 52” / 132 cm
Wingspan: 60” / 152.5 cm
Depth: 32” / 81.28 cm
Yarn Selection & Yardage
6 plates of Bottoni Unspun ( 100% italian wool from Brogna, Sambucana and Moretta breeds) - 50g plates
colorway Bosco, held double throughout.
Please note that: being an unspun thread, we cannot define the yardage of each plate, but the thickness is similar to most unspun and a single thread can be knitted averagely as a fingering, while the duoble thread roughly as a DK /worsted
Gauge
14 sts and 24 rows = 4” x 4¾” / 11.5 x 12 cm in lace chart, knit flat.
14 sts and 20 rows = 4” / 10 cm in Stockinette Stitch, knit flat.
Needles
1 circular needle, 40” or above, in size US9 / 5.5 mm, or size to get gauge.
