Current version: 1.3 - updated 2020-03-30
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Scylla is a giant overlapping hexagonal spiral, spinning and twirling, gaining power with each stripe. Alternating stripes of Garter and Stockinette stitch create ridges. Short row “points” add depth to the shawl while also breaking up long rows of knitting into short spans.
* Can be made in sock weight or sport weight
* Colour choices will show you how value (colour theory) works.
* Depth of the shawl can be easily adjusted.
Skills you will learn:
*How to choose colours
*German short rows (double stitch)
*Russian Lace bind off
Pattern Details:
*YARN
SOCK
Cedar House Yarns Sapling Sock [75% superwash merino/25% nylon; 423 m/463 yds per 100 g]; 5 skeins in 5 different colours: 2 dark (D1 and D2), 1 medium (M1), 2 light (L1 and L2)
Sample 1 uses: D1- Seaweed, D2 – Deep, M1 – Old Car, L1- Sunstone, and L2 – Alpine Lake
Indigodragonfly Cariboubaa [100% superwash merino; 398 m/435 yds per 100 g]
Indigodragonfly Chameleon Sock [63% extrafine merino/20% cashmere/17% silk; 366 m/400 yds per 100 g]
Modifying for Three Skeins (Sock Only):
To modify this shawl for 3 skeins, choose 1 dark, 1 medium and 1 light colour. Replace all references to “L2” and “D2” to L1 and D1 respectively.
SPORT:
Indigodragonfly ROUSport [100% superwash merino; 300 m/328 yds per 100 g]
FINISHED SIZE
Depth at deepest point: 51 cm/20”
Along cast on edge: 96.5 cm/38”
Along bind off edge: 317.5 cm/ 125"
GAUGE
SOCK
28 sts and 32 rows per 10 cm/4” in stockinette stitch after blocking.
26 sts and 28 garter ridges in garter stitch after blocking.
SPORT
22 sts and 28 rows per 10 cm/4” in stockinette stitch after blocking.
21 sts and 26 garter ridges in garter stitch after blocking.
While gauge information is provided for both Sock and Sport weight yarns and the resulting shawls will be different sizes, the method of knitting the shawl is identical.
NEEDLES & NOTIONS
* Sock: 3.5 mm/US 4 or size needed to get gauge; 80 cm/32” minimum circular needle is recommended
* Sport: 4 mm/US 6 or size needed to get gauge; 80 cm/32” minimum circular needle is recommended
* 6 stitch markers
* tapestry/yarn needle
* blocking wires or pins