The Knitting Fiend/ Diet Diary

KitKat kindly agreed to model the very easy to knit Maggie Shawl Design so knitters can see its length and width. As you can see, it’s a sort of shawlette with shapely looking tips. It happens to measure roughly 16 1/2″ long and 43 inches wide. I knit mine using 1 skein of Taiga Tender (goat down and wool.)

This post has a calculator to create a customized pattern for this shawl shape. If you enter the width you want and the gauge you achieve, this program will provide specific directions and estimate yardage requirements that for you.¹

Easy construction: This is a modified double triangle shawl; the knitter starts by casting on 1 stitch. After that, she increases twice each row: once at the beginning and once near the center. After knitting “a while”, the knitter begins to increase 2 stitches at the beginning; this causes the shawl to have long “tails” which curl and appear to require sophisticated shaping.

If you make a small shawl, the extra width helps the shawl stay on. If you make a large shawl, you may be able to tie this around your waist in the manner of faroese shawls.

To create your pattern, fill out this form:

Enter Gauge Information
To obtain an accurate pattern, you must knit a garter stitch gauge swatch using the needles and yarn you picked to knit your shawl, then enter
values here.

Enter your stitch gauge in garter stitch.

Stitch Gauge: st/inch

Design Your Shawl

To design your shawl, enter the width you want. The pattern will tell you the length down the back. Shawl Width: inches. (Do not enter less than 18″.)

Click to create your pattern.

Copyright Lucia Liljegren 2007.

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End notes:
1. When using the estimator bear in mind I had 4″ of yarn left over. That’s it! Estimating yardage is tricky particularly for garter stitch. I don’t pad my estimates so you may use a little less or a little more.

Comments: 6

6 Comments »

1. Awww, thank you Natalie, for the nice compliment. I was very flattered to be asked to model such a beautiful shawl. And it is a compliment indeed to say that I look like Lu as she is quite beautiful herself

   /knittykat/kitkat

   Comment by Kathy — 12/4/2006 @ 1:36 pm

2. This lookes like a terrific pattern to use a big skein of sock yarn I have. I love your calculators, I am intrigued by the Jenny & the Maggie.
   Question:
   I may be missing something but when I read the description, it says “After knitting “a while”, the knitter begins to increase 2 stitches at the beginning; this causes the shawl to have long “tails” which curl and appear to require sophisticated shaping.”
   I’m not seeing in the pattern where this increasing 2 stitches at the beginning to create the long tails occurs (and how to do). Is it after the part where you take the first measurement?
   Thank you and great calculators/patterns.

   Comment by Marilyn — 12/9/2006 @ 6:05 am

3. No. I was missing something. I somehow edited out a line between the two “Work in pattern established between…” bits! It’s fixed in both calculators.

   Thanks!

   Comment by lucia — 12/9/2006 @ 8:49 am

4. I like the shawl. It is cute. I have a question for you, and apologize for using this forum to ask it. I have a picture of a shawl, not the one above, that I want to make. How do I make a pattern? I would appreciate some advice, although I do recognize this may be totally off the subject. Thank you in advance. Joy

   Comment by Joy — 8/21/2007 @ 2:44 pm

5. Joy, Send me a photo. If it’s easy, I’ll tell you how to make the pattern. If it’s hard…well…

   Comment by lucia — 8/21/2007 @ 2:51 pm

6. I love the pattern and a calculator is a great idea. But, uh, why do you need to increase in the middle? Won’t increasing just at the ends give you a triangle??

   Comment by robbin — 4/7/2008 @ 12:02 pm

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