My new offshore mesh shawl knitting pattern
creates a beautiful light and airy triangle shape design
knitted with self striping colored yarn.
It's perfect for staying cool in warm summer weather.
Hi, I'm Kristen and welcome back to my channel, Studio Knit.
For our knitting supplies,
we're using worsted weighted yarn number four.
And I've chosen this cotton acrylic blend.
It's Caron Cotton Cakes.
It's self striping,
and this color combo is called Beach Glass.
I'll have a link for you in the description below.
We're also using a size 10 US circular needle.
It's 36 inches in length.
We are knitting it flat, but the circular needle allows us
to knit it all in one long piece.
You'll also want to have scissors
and a tapestry needle on hand.
Additionally, you may wish to have needle stoppers.
These come in really handy
so that your stitches do not fall off the needle.
Especially with lace projects like this
it's a little bit trickier to place back on the needle.
And I'm also suggesting knitting blocks and T pins.
This is totally optional.
I always like to lightly block my pieces.
This does look pretty good right off the needles,
but when you lightly block it, let it sit overnight,
it is stunning, allowing those lace eyelets
to really open up
and the entire piece to have a really nice drape.
And if you'd like to knit up your own mesh shawl,
please like up this video.
It lets me know
that you'd like to see more knitting projects
just like this.
The triangle shape of the shawl,
it's 60 inches in length and then 30 inches in height.
As always,
I have the complete knitting instructions available
totally for free on my Studio Knit website.
If you would like a printable PDF, that is available
for purchase in my Studio Knit shop.
So let's knit it up.
We begin by casting on three stitches.
We're beginning with the midpoint of the shawl.
We're knitting bottom up.
Row one, we're doing six rows to set up.
And the first row is simply knitting these three stitches.
Doesn't get much easier than that.
And the second row, same thing.
Knit three stitches.
On row three, we begin our increases.
It's knit one, and then a yarn over, bringing the yarn
to the front of the needle counterclockwise, knitting one.
And you see that we are increasing with the yarn overs.
Another yarn over and then knitting one.
So where we began with three stitches,
now we will have five stitches on our needle.
Row four is simply knitting these five stitches,
knitting five.
On setup row number five,
more increases with yarn overs.
So knitting one, yarn over.
And then these next three stitches,
we're simply knitting three stitches, one, two, and three.
One more yarn over, and then knitting that last stitch.
So where we began with five stitches on our needle,
now we have seven stitches.
And row six is simply knitting all seven stitches.
Now we're ready to begin the four row repeat.
And the techniques are really similar.
We're just adding in a couple of decrease stitches now.
So we're knitting one stitch,
and then we are going to increase with a yarn over.
And now we're going to decrease.
Instead of knitting one stitch,
we're knitting two stitches together.
K2TOG is knit two together.
And now I'm going to add my little stitch marker.
So I have two different colored stitch markers.
The orange one, when that one comes up first,
it lets me know that I'm on the right side of my work.
I first yarn over, pick up a little stitch marker.
I'm just using a scrap of yarn with a slipknot.
And here you want to make sure
that your yarn over wraps around
on this side right here of your stitch marker.
Because in between the stitch markers
will only be one stitch, and that will be the case
throughout the entirety of knitting your shawl.
We just have that one stitch in the middle,
which is being marked off by these stitch markers here.
It helps us easily know when we're at the midpoint.
And then we're doing a yarn over
and we're going to do a slip slip knit.
So you slip one stitch as if to knit,
again slip one stitch as if to knit.
Bring the tip of your needle through
and knit those two stitches together in slip, slip, knit.
If any of these techniques are new to you
I have more thorough technique videos
that you can check out as well.
And then we are finishing up with a yarn over
and knitting one.
So on each of the right sides of our work, we're always
going to be increasing two stitches onto our needle.
For row two here on the wrong side,
we're simply knitting all stitches.
And as you're knitting your stitches, you wanna be mindful
of the yarn overs.
Make sure that they're not crisscrossing
over the knit stitches.
Take your time with it and simply knit all stitches
on row two.
Here on row three, the techniques are the same,
just the order of the stitches is a little bit different
to get those alternating eyelets.
So we begin by knitting one stitch, a yarn over,
knitting one stitch, and then the repeat
of yarn over, K2 together begins.
Here we're only doing it once.
As you increase your stitches in between those asterisks
you'll be repeating those instructions.
And then we slip the marker, knit one stitch,
slip the marker.
And we begin with SSK, slip slip knit,
and yarn over to the last three stitches on our needle.
And then it's knit one, yarn over, and knit one.
Again on row four, all of the wrong sides of your work.
You will be knitting all stitches.
Being mindful of those yarn overs and taking your time.
So you'll be knitting 32 repeats of rows one through four.
That will be a total of 128 rows
in addition to those six original setup rows that we had.
And you'll be finishing
with a total of 135 stitches on your needle.
And now it's time to finish our work.
I'm recommending the stretchy bind off.
You can just do a standard bind off if you want,
do it really loosely.
This one seems to work really nicely for this piece.
You knit one stitch and then you yarn over.
You're a pro at that now. (laughing)
And you knit another stitch.
Okay, from here, you take your left needle
and you insert it into stitches one and two right here.
And then you pass it over that third stitch.
And we repeat the pattern
of yarn over and then passing over.
So we're yarning over, knitting, and passing
stitches one and two, taking the tip of our needle
and passing it over.
And we just continue this all the way down the row.
Now the stretchy bind off does take a little bit more time
but I think you'll really like the results
so you might wanna give it a try.
I also have a video where I break it down
a little bit more slowly for you.
And once you get to your final stitch, simply cut your yarn,
get that tapestry needle, thread it through,
and then weave in that last little stitch
along with your yarn tail
and any other yarn ends you may have created along the way.
It's a little tricky sometimes to know exactly
where to weave your ends through.
I just recommend not doing it too tightly.
You really can't go wrong.
Again, I do recommend blocking your work.
I just use a spray bottle, spray both sides,
make sure it's really nice and damp,
pin it to my boards and let it sit overnight.
One or two days maybe at the most,
but I think one day is probably enough.
And I hope you're inspired to knit up
this offshore mesh shawl for yourself with confidence.
I have some other great scarf and shawl patterns for you.
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