A couple of summers ago I came up with the idea of moving the lace that is typically found along the bottom edge of shawls up to the top edge to create face framing lace on a shawl. I designed two shawls this way and then a knitter asked if I could make one that had lace on the top and bottom edge – which was a challenge!

But things being what they are a series of … situations, delayed the completion of this design. One of which involved a partially completed sample ending up in the washing machine (it wasn’t superwash).

So here it is, finally. The first sample was to use some very special yarn and part of my delay in creating a new one was replacing this yarn. And it ended up taking 2 yarns to do it! I chose to pair a unique Alpaca/Silk/Linen from KittyBea Knitting with the beautiful halo that comes from Shibui’s Silk Cloud and I love how it came out. But you can use almost any fingering weight held with laceweight mohair, or leave the mohair out altogether.

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