tailieunhanh - Deux Côtés by Lara Neel

Yarn: Classic Elite Yarns Alpaca Sox, 3 skeins (see notes about this, 2 skeins might be plenty), 60% alpaca, 20% merino wool, 20% nylon, 100 grams/450 yards. Color 1857 (mine was lot 8196) Needles: Size 6 Gauge: 6 stitches to the inch in Deux Côtés stitch, after blocking Size: 65” wide and 29” deep, at the triangle’s point. Sizing can be adjusted by working more or fewer repeats. This is a top-down triangular shawl made to be lovely on both sides, hence the name, which means “two sides” in French | Deux côtés by Lara Neel Yarn Classic Elite Yarns Alpaca Sox 3 skeins see notes about this 2 skeins might be plenty 60 alpaca 20 merino wool 20 nylon 100 grams 450 yards. Color 1857 mine was lot 8196 Needles Size 6 Gauge 6 stitches to the inch in Deux côtés stitch after blocking Size 65 wide and 29 deep at the triangle s point. Sizing can be adjusted by working more or fewer repeats. This is a top-down triangular shawl made to be lovely on both sides hence the name which means two sides in French. My sister in part inspired me to try for a shawl that looks great either way. I made her a shawl several years ago. I m very pleased that she wears it almost constantly. But about half of the time she puts it on well backwards. So I wanted to make a shawl that would work either way. Do you ever get 90 through a project and start to worry that you will run out of yarn I bought that third skein for insurance and ended up needing it. The final piece weighed 212 grams which means that I used about 12 of the third skein. I estimated how large the shawl would be after blocking by working about 4 repeats of the pattern then wetting and pinning out the work while it was still on the needles. Once it was dry I measured how long across the top of the work was and used that to determine how many repeats I would need for my desired width of about 64 inches. I repeated the chart until I had 40 squares across the top of the shawl. Amazingly the shawl actually dressed out at 65 inches. My math was correct but I forgot to add in the width of the shawl s border. If I had stopped at 38 squares across the shawl might be a bit smaller than I wanted but I feel pretty safe in saying that I would not have needed any of the third skein of yarn. So you can save a little cash if you make the shawl 38 squares across the top I think it would end up between 61 and 62 inches wide because two skeins would probably be enough yarn. That said I haven t actually tried it so maybe go ahead and get that third