Catoctin
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Catoctin is a top-down, crescent-shaped lace shawl with an intricate, richly textured border featuring small and larger interlocking cables suspended between yarn-over columns. The cute star stitches interspersed throughout the middle stockinette section on the shawl body add visual interest that is contrasted by an open lacy pattern on either side. Catoctin is engrossing knit filled interesting stitch patterns that will keep your interest throughout.
I named the shawl after Catoctin Mountain in Thurmont, Maryland, a lush and heavily forested mountain park where I have spent many wonderful hours hiking and exploring.
When worked at the pattern shawl size, the border will use up about half the total yardage, so this is a great design for two skeins of your favorite hand-dyed sock yarn—the shawl body can be worked from one skein and the border from the other, so you won’t have to worry about blending the skeins.
To help you along the way, there are comprehensive instructions about how to work a knitted-on border, customize the size and block to the crescent shape, as well as video links that explain the various techniques involved in knitting the shawl.
The Catoctin pattern includes both charts and full written out instructions for those of you who prefer not to use charts.
SKILL LEVEL
Intermediate
FINISHED SIZE
72 x 19” (183 x 48 cm), adjustable
YARN WEIGHT
Fingering
YARDAGE
Approximately 750-850 yds (686-777 m)
YARN
Neighborhood Fiber Co. Rustic Fingering, 100% Merino, Anacostia colorway
NEEDLES
US Size 6 (4.0 mm) circular, 32” (80 cm) long
US Size 8 (5.0 mm) straight, double pointed or circular, for bind off
NOTIONS
4 stitch markers; blocking supplies, including 120 T-pins; cable needle; tapestry needle
GAUGE
5 sts = 1” (2.5 cm) stockinette stitch, blocked. Note that gauge is not critical but will affect the finished size and yardage requirements.
DELIVERY FORMAT
This product is a downloadable PDF of the instructions to make this design, not the item itself. Upon completed purchase, you will be able to download the pattern immediately from the payment window. You will also receive an email with a download link. Please see the FAQ for more details.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
This original pattern is intended for the purchaser’s personal use only. Copying and then distributing or sharing the pattern in whole or part including text, charts or photographs is prohibited without my written consent. All rights reserved.
I named the shawl after Catoctin Mountain in Thurmont, Maryland, a lush and heavily forested mountain park where I have spent many wonderful hours hiking and exploring.
When worked at the pattern shawl size, the border will use up about half the total yardage, so this is a great design for two skeins of your favorite hand-dyed sock yarn—the shawl body can be worked from one skein and the border from the other, so you won’t have to worry about blending the skeins.
To help you along the way, there are comprehensive instructions about how to work a knitted-on border, customize the size and block to the crescent shape, as well as video links that explain the various techniques involved in knitting the shawl.
The Catoctin pattern includes both charts and full written out instructions for those of you who prefer not to use charts.
SKILL LEVEL
Intermediate
FINISHED SIZE
72 x 19” (183 x 48 cm), adjustable
YARN WEIGHT
Fingering
YARDAGE
Approximately 750-850 yds (686-777 m)
YARN
Neighborhood Fiber Co. Rustic Fingering, 100% Merino, Anacostia colorway
NEEDLES
US Size 6 (4.0 mm) circular, 32” (80 cm) long
US Size 8 (5.0 mm) straight, double pointed or circular, for bind off
NOTIONS
4 stitch markers; blocking supplies, including 120 T-pins; cable needle; tapestry needle
GAUGE
5 sts = 1” (2.5 cm) stockinette stitch, blocked. Note that gauge is not critical but will affect the finished size and yardage requirements.
DELIVERY FORMAT
This product is a downloadable PDF of the instructions to make this design, not the item itself. Upon completed purchase, you will be able to download the pattern immediately from the payment window. You will also receive an email with a download link. Please see the FAQ for more details.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
This original pattern is intended for the purchaser’s personal use only. Copying and then distributing or sharing the pattern in whole or part including text, charts or photographs is prohibited without my written consent. All rights reserved.
