Kide Shawl

I had a few balls of rather thick mohair yarn and I wanted to use them to knit a lace shawl. The problem was picking
the shawl pattern, as many patterns are designed for very thin yarns and the lace patterns usually don't look very
nice when the yarn is so much thicker. I ended up designing my own shawl. I call this shawl Kide (Crystal in English)
as it reminded me how the sun gleams on snow in the spring.

Yarn
Novita Kid Mohair, 200 m (219 yds)/50 (1.75 oz) g, white, 3 balls.

Gauge
15 sts and 16 rows = 4" (10 cm).

Needles
Us #8. I used a circular needle to knit the body and DPN's for the border.

Size
The shawl measures approximately 25" x 68" (62 cm x 173 cm) after blocking.

Body of shawl
Using provisional cast-on, cast on 63 sts. Knit 2 rows in garter st, then knit Rows 1-12 in chart 1. The red area in Chart 1
is the pattern repeat, knit the red part a total of 4 times on each row. Note: Knit WS rows (the shawl is essentially a
garter stitch shawl).

Knit 22 repeats of R1-12 in chart 1. Knit 1 row and cut yarn. As you will join the border to the 3rd st on last knitted
row, it might be useful to place 2 sts on this row on a separate holder (for example a safety pin), and the rest on
a longer stitch holder.

Along the cast-on edge, pick up 63 sts for border. Place these sts on holder. Do not pick any sts along the long sides of
shawl, as the border is knit directly into the sides of the body of shawl. You will have 63 sts on both shorter sides of
the body, ready for knitting the border.

Border
Cast on invisibly 12 sts for border. Begin on R1 in chart 2. Join the border onto the shawl body on the 2nd row of
border pattern. Join this row together with the 3rd st of the last row in shawl body.
On the short sides of the body, join the border to the body: on even-number rows, knit according to chart 2, until
you have the last st remaining, slip 1 st pwise, knit 1 st (of body sts) and pass the slipped st over. Turn.

On the long sides of the body, join the border to the body: on even-number rows, knit according to chart 2, until
you have the last st remaining, slip 1 st pwise, pick up 1 st along the body and knit it, pass the slipped st over. Turn.

Repeat border pattern 14 times on each short side of body, 36 times on each long side of body and once in every corner.
End with R8. Graft the ends of the shawl border together.

Weave in ends. Soak in lukewarm water and block the shawl.

Tip:
If you want to lengthen the shawl from the original, you can add or reduce an even number of pattern repeats. For every
two pattern repeats there are 3 border pattern repeats. For example: if you knit 20 body pattern repeats, you will
have 33 border pattern repeats on long sides of shawl.

If you want to change the width of shawl, you can do so easily. Every pattern repeat (the red area in chart 1) is 12 sts
and for every pattern repeat, there are 3 border pattern repeats. If you change the number of pattern repeats, note
that there are 6 sts before the pattern repeat and 9 sts after the repeat. This means, that you will have to cast on
15 additional sts to the desired number of pattern repeats (= the stitch pattern is divisible by 12 sts + 15 sts). For
example, if you want 5 pattern repeats instead of 4, you will cast on 5 x 12 sts + 15 sts = 75 sts.

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