Mountain Snowmelt Shawl
Elegant. Cozy. Worsted Weight.
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Pattern Information
High in the Rocky Mountains mountains, discover snow compressed and hardened by its own weight. As it slowly melts, it finds its way into streams and rivers. Here in Colorado, snowpack is a valuable resource for drinking water and avoiding drought-induced wildfires. Come spring, the streams and rivers fill a little more, and the closer to a mountain top you can climb, the clearer the water gets. Crisp, refreshing, and cold, this water brings life with it down into the plains.
This shawl is an ode to water’s properties in its many forms, from snowpack to snowmelt to life-sustenance. Wade through deep snowpack with the shawl body’s alternating ribbed pattern, and float down a mountain with an applied border of a stream of cabled snowmelt. Short rows create a symmetrical cabled heart on the center point of the shawl border, a reminder to be grateful for clean, drinkable water.
Materials
- Yarn Maker: Malabrigo
- Yarn Base: Rios
- Fiber Content: 100% Superwash Merino
- Weight: Worsted / 10-ply
- Put-Up: 210 yds / 3.53oz – 192m / 100g
- Number of Skeins Required: 5
- Length Required: 1000 yds / 914m
- Colorway: Aquamarine
Gauge in 4″ / 10cm
- Stockinette, Unwashed: 19 sts & 28 rows
- Texture, Washed: 16 sts & 22 rows
- Edging, Washed: 31 sts & 27 rows
- To produce lofty cables and an open ribbing.
Needles
- One 60″ / 150cm circular needle in size needed to obtain listed gauge
- Designer Used: US8 / 5mm
Tools
- 4 removable stitch markers
- 2 Cable Needles
- Yarn Needle
- Smooth waste yarn for provisional cast on
Sizes
- One-Size
Dimensions
- Center Back: 33.5″ / 85cm
- Wingspan: 66″ / 168cm
Schematic
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Cast Ons
- Icord Tab Cast On
- Invisible Provisional Cast On
Stitches
Basics
- K
- P
- Slwyif
Cables
- 1/2 LC
- 1/2 RC
- 3/1/3 LPC
- 3/1/3 RPC
- 3/3/3 LC
- 3/3/3 RC
Decreases
- K2Tog
- P2Tog
- P2Tog tbl
- P3Tog
- SSK
Increases
- KFB
- M1L
- M1R
- M1LP
- M1RP
Short Row Techniques
- LRI
- LRPI
Bind Off & Finishing
- Icord Bind Off
- Kitchener Stitch
Modeled Gallery
Photography by Julieanna Davis of JulieannaD Photography
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Work In Progress Gallery
Photography by Amanda Leah Guthrie of Atlas Knits
Swatch Gallery
Photography by Amanda Leah Guthrie of Atlas Knits