QUICK SOMETHING-FROM-THE-STASH SHAWL:

#35 needles
90-100 yards of 6 or 7 yarns, compatible fibers and colors, sport 
thru worsted wt. (DK-aran?)
Gauge: approx 1 st/in (MY kind of gauge!)
Finished size: 45" wide by 18" deep (little kid sized). For an adult, 
get a bunch more yarn! Permission granted to purchase some.

DIREX:
Cast on 3 sts.
row 1 and all odd numbered rows: Knit
row 2: K1, YO, K1, YO, K1
row 4: (K1, YO) 4 times, K1
row 6: (K1, YO, [K3], YO) 2 times, K1
Repeat rows 7-8, incrementing the number of sts
in the square brackets by 2 stitches each time (so row 8 
would be [K5], row 10 will be [K7], etc. until there are 61 sts or 
you run out of a yarn.
Bind off, cut lengths of remaining yarns(mine were about 9" long) and 
half-hitch thru sts along the edges.

This is a trangular shawl with a double row of inc. holes up the 
center and a row up each edge. It's the shape of the garter stitch 
shawl by Meg S. in the Victorian issue of Knitters which looks great 
in loopy boucle on size 11 ndls, btw. 

It only took a couple of hours to make each of these little shawls.


much love and many thanks,
LizC
in Bath, Maine

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