Cascade Yarns FW Lattice Sampler Shawl Wrap Knitting Pattern

Cascade Yarns FW Lattice Sampler Shawl

What Is Being Made

The Cascade Yarns FW Lattice Sampler Shawl is an asymmetric triangular shawl designed by Jennifer Weissman. This intermediate-level knitting project measures 64 inches wide by 32.5 inches deep when blocked, making it a generous wrap suitable for layering or draping. The shawl showcases multiple bands of lattice lace patterns set against a garter stitch background, with the design culminating in a wider band of large lattice lace at the finished edge.

Techniques Used

This shawl is constructed using seamless, flat knitting techniques. The piece begins with just 2 stitches and grows into a right triangle through strategic stitch increases worked at the beginning of right-side rows. The design employs lace knitting as its primary decorative technique, featuring multiple lattice stitch patterns separated by ridges of double garter stitch. For a professional appearance, the first stitch of each row is slipped purlwise with yarn in front, creating a neat selvage edge. The shawl is worked flat on straight needles rather than in the round, allowing for the asymmetric triangular shape to develop naturally.

Stitches and Stitch Patterns

The Lattice Sampler Shawl employs a variety of essential knitting stitches and techniques:

• Garter Stitch: Forms the main background field throughout the shawl, created by knitting every row
• Lattice Lace Patterns: Featured in six distinct sections (Sections 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13) that are charted separately and set off by double garter stitch ridges
• Yarn Overs (YO): Create the openwork characteristic of lace patterns and serve as increases
• Decreases: Multiple decrease techniques including K2tog (knit 2 together), SSK (slip, slip, knit), and Sl2-K1-P2SSO (slip 2, knit 1, pass slipped stitches over) shape the lace patterns and control stitch count
• Knit Front and Back (KFB): An alternative increase method used to add stitches at strategic points
• Slip Stitches: Used both for edge definition and as part of decrease techniques

Materials and Tools

This project requires Cascade Yarns Cascade 220 Fingering, a fingering-weight yarn made from 100% Peruvian Highland Wool. The pattern calls for 4 skeins in color #9593 (Ginseng), with each skein containing 273 yards (250 meters) and weighing 50 grams (1.75 ounces). The yarn is worked on US 4 (3.5 mm) knitting needles or the size needed to achieve the specified gauge of 20 stitches by 40 rows equaling 4 inches (10 centimeters) in blocked garter stitch. Additional supplies include 3 stitch markers to track pattern sections, a yarn needle for weaving in ends, and pins for blocking to achieve the finished dimensions.