Berroco Champignon Wrap Knitting Pattern
By Berroco
Specifications
| Brand: | Berroco |
| Yarn Weight: | Worsted |
| Designer: | Åsa Buchta |
| Craft: | Knitting |
| Format: | Downloadable PDF |
| Languages: | English |
| Techniques and Construction: | Bottom Up, Lace, Seamless, Worked Flat |
Product Description
Wrap up in Berroco Champignon for a luxurious feel and elegant lace-accented style! Champignon is straightforward to knit, worked flat from end to end with geometric lace motifs on each end and eyelet columns along the body of the wrap. Talara yarn gives this piece a warm, lush feel with its soft baby llama fiber and airy chainette construction. Add Champignon to your handmade accessory collection for an easy to throw on wrap that will be as useful at work as it is on your couch! Lace pattern is both charted and written out.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Sizes: One Size
Finished Measurements: 19” wide and 64” long
Yarn Requirements: 8 balls Berroco Talara (100% Baby Llama; 50g/132yds), shown in #7328 Puno
Needles: US 9 (5.50mm)
Gauge: 20 sts and 28 rows = 4” in pattern, after blocking
Berroco Champignon Knit Shawl
What Is Being Made
The Champignon is a knit shawl designed by Åsa Buchta, classified as an intermediate-level project. This finished shawl measures approximately 19 inches wide by 64 inches long (48.5 cm × 162.5 cm), making it a versatile wrap suitable for layering or draping across the shoulders.
Techniques Used
This shawl is constructed using several key knitting techniques:
- Bottom-up construction: The shawl is worked from the cast-on edge upward, allowing knitters to try on and adjust fit as they progress
- Seamless, worked flat: The entire piece is created on straight needles without seaming, maintaining clean edges throughout
- Lace knitting: Decorative openwork is central to the design, created through strategic yarn overs and decreases that form an elegant, breathable fabric
Stitches and Stitch Pattern
The Champignon features a sophisticated 28-row repeating pattern stitch that creates the lace design. The pattern is based on a multiple of 10 stitches plus 15 additional stitches, allowing the motif to repeat across the width while maintaining balanced shaping.
Key stitches used throughout include:
- Yarn overs (yo): Create the characteristic openings and lace holes
- K2tog (knit two together): Right-leaning decreases used for shaping
- SSK (slip, slip, knit): Left-leaning decreases that balance the k2tog decreases
- CDD (central double decrease): A centered decrease that creates vertical lines within the lace pattern
- Purl rows: All wrong-side rows are purled, providing structure between the lace rows
The pattern can be worked either from written row-by-row instructions or from a provided chart, accommodating different knitter preferences.
Materials and Gauge
The Champignon is knit using Berroco Talara yarn in the colorway #7328 Puno. The project requires 8 balls of yarn, with each ball weighing 50 grams, providing ample yardage for the finished dimensions.
Knitting needles size 9 (5.5 mm) are recommended, though the pattern notes that knitters should size up or down as needed to achieve the correct gauge. The target gauge is 20 stitches and 28 rows over 4 inches (10 cm) in pattern stitch, measured after blocking. Proper gauge is essential for achieving the intended finished measurements and ensuring the lace pattern displays correctly.
The pattern begins with casting on 95 stitches, followed by one wrong-side knit row before beginning the 28-row pattern repeat.
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