By Caroline Sommerfeld I love to visit gardens and whenever I travel, I’ll look for a special garden to visit. One of my favourite gardens is the Butchart Garden on Vancouver Island, and any chance I get I will visit! The Rose Garden there is wonderful, with trellises of climbing roses leading to swooping circular beds of all the rose varieties one could imagine. This shawl with its curving shape asymmetric bias shape and rose motifs worked in mosaic and twisted stitches will take you away to a rose garden of your very own! SizesOne Size Finished MeasurementsWidth at widest point (not tip to tip): 235cm / 92.5” Depth at deepest point: 55.5cm / 22” Gauge22 sts / 28 rows = 10 cm / 4" in Stocking stitch, blocked Materials Socknado - Fingering / Sock80% Superwash Fine Merino 20% Nylon 3 Ply Fingering / Sock350 meters / 385 yards per 100 gram / 3.5 oz skein Yardage: 3 skein(s) total. Option 1: 2 skeins MC, 1 skein CC1.Option 2: 2 skeins MC, 1 skein CC1, 2 mini skeins CC2 Total estimated yardage: Option 1: approx. 756m of MC, and 260m of CC.Option 2: approx. 756m of MC, 190m of CC1, 70m of CC2. Sample Shown in Option 2: Little Wild Things (MC), Contented Grapes (CC1), Summer Wine CC2). Needle sizes: Size 3.75 mm / US 5, 80 cm / 32" circular needles, or size(s) needed to achieve gauge. Optional for border:One set size 3.50 mm / US 4, 80 cm / 32" circular needles, or size(s) needed to achieve gauge. Notions:Tapestry needle, stitch markers. NotesThis is an asymmetric bias shawl that includes twisted stitch motifs and mosaic colourwork. The border is knit together with the stitches of the body of the shawl. Socknado - Fingering / Sock80% Superwash Fine Merino 20% Nylon 3 Ply Fingering / Sock350 meters / 385 yards per 100 gram / 3.5 oz skeinGauge: 27 - 32 sts / 4 inches (10 cm) US 1.5 - 3 or 2.5 - 3.25 mm Pattern is available as a downloadable PDF at checkout. A link for future download will also be emailed to you with your receipt.
