Catalina KAL

Ruth has very kindly set up a KAL for Catalina here - go check it out! (Thanks Ruth!)

Catalina Shawl Pattern

The Catalina Shawl Pattern is now complete and available for download! Please let me know if you have any problems with the purchase or the download. The pdf includes written instructions, stitch pattern chart, and six photos. It may be printed for personal use, but may not be sold or distributed without permission from the author. FYI: I used Handmaiden Lace Silk in colorway Sangria for the shawl in the photos.

**Important Revisions: The second sentence of the last paragraph on the first page should begin as follows: "Repeat rows 1-76 of all sections in the chart..." instead of "Repeat rows 1-76 of Sections A through B..." Thanks to Rebecca (not sure if you have a blog) for bringing this to my attention! Also, row 69 has section B worked over only 17 stitches, not 18. This row should start with a ssk, k2tog, yo in section B, rather than a k1, k2tog, yo (similar to the beginning of row 71). Thanks to Jenna for pointing this out and discovering a fix for it.**


Thank you, and I hope you all enjoy the pattern! :)

Pattern is $6.00.


Oh, and - please, please spread the word on this pattern to anyone you think might be interested. I greatly appreciate your help and all of your supportive comments along the way as I designed Catalina! You guys are awesome.

ETA: a few folks have asked about using the photos for linking/blogging purposes - please do! I just put a copyright on them because it's what you're "supposed" to do as far as I know, but as long as you don't sell them or hand them off to any shady characters I'm totally cool with the photos being posted up in knitting blog land so people can see what the finished item looks like. (Please do not, however, reproduce and/or post the pattern chart, obviously - thanks!) If you could just save any photos to your server before you post them, though, that would be great, for bandwidth reasons I don't fully understand... ;) Thanks for spreading the link!!

More notes: Okay, in reading the comments I see you all would like more specs on this, so here you go! The yarn I used for this is about 600 m/100 g to a skein, 100% silk laceweight (you can find it here), and I didn't use all of it (about 15 g. leftover) - it's a great project to show off more expensive laceweight yarns that you might only purchase one or two skeins of. It's written for laceweight (any laceweight really), and could also be done in cobweb or fingering weight. I haven't tried it in cobweb or fingering weights, though, so make sure you have plenty of yardage just in case. In laceweight worked as written in the pattern, the finished dimensions are about 60" by 15" without fringe. It can easily be widened or lengthened (or vice versa) by adjusting the number of repeats. Finally, I would say this pattern is totally doable for beginning lace knitters, as long as you can read a chart. Techniques used include: knit, purl, yarn over, double yarn over (explained in the pattern notes), slip slip knit, knit two together, purl two together, and knit two together through the back loop. There are no increases or decreases along the edges and the border is a very simple yarn over stitch pattern. Any of these techniques may be found, often with photos, in online tutorials if you aren't sure of how to do them.