Rhiannon was a great queen from Welsh mythology and this dramatic hap shawl is named in her honour. It uses a traditional hap shawl construction, beginning with the central square, from which stitches are picked up all around to work the two borders. Once these are complete the knitted-on edging is added, complete with tidy short-row corners.
Rhiannon Hap Shawl uses yo, K2tog, SSK and sk2po to create all the lace stitches. Explanations of all abbreviations are given in the pattern. How to work the short rows used in the corners of the edging is also explained thoroughly.
Video tutorial for a provisional cast-on
Yarn Weight: Lace
Yarn
- Cascade Yarns, Alpaca Lace (Laceweight; 100% Baby Alpaca; 400m/437yds per 50g skein), Silver 1413; 5 x 50g skeins (220g used in sample shown)
- Or 250g/2000m of any laceweight yarn
Needles
- 3.75mm (UK 9/US 5) circular knitting needles, 120cm long
- 1 pair 4mm (UK 8/US 6) knitting needles for provisional cast-on
Notions
- Waste yarn for provisional cast-on
- 5 stitch markers
- Tapestry needle
Tension
- Stitch Patterns for Parts One, Two, Three & garter st: 17.5 sts and 35 rows to 10cm using 3.75mm needles, after blocking and relaxing to finished measurements.
- 1 repeat of Edging Pattern (Part Four): 11.5cm at widest point x 3.5cm high using 3.75mm needles, after blocking and relaxing to finished measurements.
Finished Measurements
- Block to: 158 cm/62¼” long x 158 cm/62¼” wide
- Relaxes to: 146 cm/57½” long x 146 cm/57½” wide
Schematic
Notes
- 1. Leave yarn attached at end of each part.
- 2. All charts are optional and are on pages 9-11.
- 3. The stitch patterns are given at the beginning of each section: “Begin Part One/Two/etc” is where you start knitting with reference to these stitch patterns or their related chart.