Sunday, Sunday

A couple of gift shawls that will soon be heading out.

Airy and casual enough to throw around one's shoulders for a light layer.

Or bunched and wrapped around the neck for a snuggly warm scarf.

I love the freshness of the colors :)

Sunday Market Shawl

by Vanessa Carter, freebie found here

yarn:  Country by Caron

color:  spruce and foliage

2 skeins each color:  185yds/85g ea

needles:  size 10

modifications:  cast on 36 stitches.

Knit until there is only enough yarn to bind off.

size after stockinette, before dropping YO's:  49 1/2" x 12 1/2"

finished size after blocking:  63" x 19"

ETA:  I've had quite a few questions about the directions for the shawl,

and I admit that I had to read it through a few times when I started it.

So to clarify:  I cast on 36 stitches.

The next row I did *K2, YO* all the way across.

The rest of the shawl is knit in stockinette (knit right side rows, purl wrong side rows.)

The last right side row of the shawl: *K2, drop a stitch* all the way across.

You are now dropping the original YO's from the first row.

These will unravel to create the mesh rows down the length of the shawl.

Bind off.

The shawl will increase quite a bit in length and width after you drop the YO's.

I hope this helps :)

While knitting away on these, all I could think of was...

"To market, to market to buy a fat pig;

Home again, home again jiggety jig"!