12/22/2018 The Sewing Lawyer: An easy machine knitted shawl

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2015 ABOUT ME

An easy machine knitted shawl KAYY

It may surprise you to learn that there are some extremely active machine knitting VIEW MY COMPLETE

groups on Facebook. A few months ago, people started to post photos of a faux- PROFILE

ribbed shawl that became known as "Christine's Shawl" after its designer, Christine
B. Linfield.

The instructions are posted in the group's documents, free for anyone who's a FOLLOWERS
member of the group to use. There's a link on the Ravelry pattern page.

Basically, you knit a long piece using

the full bed (180 needles) of a
standard gauge machine. Every 4th
needle is out of work, which creates
the ribbed appearance.

Then you do short rows, by putting

the first group of 3 needles out of
work and knitting 4 rows, and
repeating with each successive group
of 3 needles.

Then you bring all the groups of

needles back into work in reverse
order. This creates a line of eyelets
and makes your shawl turn a corner.

The shawl has 3 such corners - one over each shoulder and one at CB.

The pattern is extremely easy and I originally thought it wasn't a very interesting
shawl. However, I started to think about what to make for my 90+ year old mother
in law who's in a nursing home, and realized that this shawl in her favourite colour
could be just the thing.

I started it on Sunday and would have finished it in one go, but for the fact that I
realized I was going to run out of yarn. I did the second half on Tuesday evening.

It took me longer to finish the ends of the shawl, which I did with a sort of
backwards single crochet.

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I may make another one of these. It's Followers (762) Next

very cozy!

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POSTED BY KAYY AT 10:25 PM

LABELS: JEANNE'S SHAWL, PASSAP DUOMATIC 80

7 COMMENTS:

Anonymous November 6, 2015 at 12:07 AM

It's absolutely gorgeous. Love the colour – my fave. Can I have one too?
What is the yarn you used?
Vancouver Barbara
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Bibliophile November 6, 2015 at 3:34 AM

Nice to see you're still machine knitting, there's not many of us, thanks for
the Facebook links too, I wasn't aware of the groups
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365 Dresses November 6, 2015 at 7:38 AM

Just lovely---please, can you tell us what the yarn is?
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Mrs K November 6, 2015 at 9:26 AM

Very pretty shawl. Thanks for the Facebook link - I've been debating on
getting a knitting machine so maybe I can get some help there.
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knitmachinequeen (KMQ) November 6, 2015 at 6:32 PM

You did a beautiful job.
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Lisa November 6, 2015 at 7:30 PM

Very pretty!
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Tomasa November 8, 2015 at 7:37 PM

What a pretty shawl in a gorgeous color.
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