Night Market
Contains:
- Knitting pattern for textured, colorful shawl that utilizes a gradient set to its best advantage
- Chart, row-by-row instructions, and technique photos included
- Suitable for intermediate knitters
Description
Knit sideways in an easy textured stitch with inlaid “pearls,” Night Market incorporates eight colors to mimic the southeastern Asian pasar malam, or “night market,” which holds light and warmth up against the inky night.
Don’t let the length of this pattern alarm you - because of the eight-row texture stitch repeat, the two-row increase repeat, the four-row shaping repeat, and the color changes, the instructions work best given in line-by-line format.
Skills required: yarn overs, increasing, decreasing, slipping stitches, picot bind-off (instructions provided)
Finished measurements: approximately 167.5 cm wide and 48 cm deep, unblocked. This shawl needs minimal blocking and the dimensions should change very little after blocking
Gauge: 24 stitches to 10 cm of texture stitch, unblocked
Note: Though conversions to the metric system have been made on this page for your convenience, the pattern itself uses American measurements.
Materials you need at home:
- One six-skein gradient set of Miss Babs Caroline (fingering-weight merino/cashmere/nylon) - 121.5 m per mini skein. Sample was knit in the Grand Bazaar gradient. These will be colors 1 through 6
- 65 m of a contrasting color (Ebony in the sample) for the pearls, edging, and picot bind-off
- 250 m of a color that coordinates with your gradient (Corset in sample). This will be color 7
- 3.5 mm/US 4 needle, or size needed to obtain gauge
- Stitch marker
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends