Description
The Strength Within – This top-down crescent-shaped shawl is designed with a variety of different techniques to keep you hooked without becoming tedious. Worked flat, The Strength Within contains written directions and charts. A handy-dandy progress tracker is included to help you with your row and stitch counts.
This shawl pattern shines well with solid, semi-solid, or lightly variegated/speckled yarns. The Strength Within also looks spectacular in a long slow changing gradient. Picking an appropriate yarn for this project will ensure you don’t lose the fun cables achieved in the first section, nor have a yarn that distracts from the lovely textured motifs that follow.
SKILL LEVEL
Intermediate
NOTIONS
Tapestry needle, cable needle, stitch markers
SUGGESTED NEEDLES
US8 (5 mm) 40” (100 cm) circular needles, or size required to obtain gauge
SIZE INFORMATION
Small [Large]
YARN REQUIREMENTS
483 [934] yds / 442 [854] m DK weight yarn
SUGGESTED YARN
Allison Barnes Yarn – Classic DK
100% SW Merino
250 yds (229 m) /4 oz (115 g)
Color: Where There is No Struggle There is No Strength
GAUGE
18 stitches by 24 rows in stockinette = 4” / 10 cm, after blocking. While gauge is not important, as the fit is not crucial, changes in gauge will result in size differences and the yardage required to complete the project.
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Approximately 78 [107]” / 198 [272] cm across the wingspan, 25 [34]” / 63.5 [86] cm deep, after blocking. Pattern sample is shown in the smallest size.
LOW-VISIBILITY & SCREEN READER FORMAT
A low-visibility and a screen-reader accessible version of this pattern are available. The low-visibility format is 24pt print in Arial, black font, no italics, and contains written directions (there are no charts to work from). The screen reader format has all the items mentioned above, contains no abbreviations, and accessibility was checked by read-aloud function on both a Windows PC and Android device.