With medieval-style dragons and castles, this shawl is a fantasy lover's delight! It's knitted entirely in the round, with the fringe built in as you go. This pattern features the easiest steek imaginable - the steek becomes the fringe; you just cut it up the middle and knot the strands to finish!
Accessibility
Purchasing this pattern gives you access to both a standard-format PDF with the instructions and a low-vision/screen reader version.
Sizing
Sample shown was made in size small. Large size is extremely similar to small size, except it has more curling vines along the borders and wider castles at the sides.
- Length: 60" for small size, 69" for large size
- Width: 19"
Skills required
- Knitting, purling
- Increasing, decreasing
- Stranded knitting
If you want to follow the charted instructions, you'll also need to be able to follow a chart. However, this is not required, as written instructions are also provided.
Materials needed
- Yarn: Worsted weight, as follows:
- Main colour (red shown): approximately 540yd for small and 620yd for large - model used 170g of Estelle "Eco Shetland Worsted", 100% wool, 100g/275m/301yd, colour Q42310 cherry
- Contrast colour (white shown): approximately 575yd for small and 630yd for large - model used 259.5g of Ella Rae "Classic Superwash", 100% superwash wool, 100g/200m/219yd, colour 001 vanilla
- Needles: 5.5mm circular needle, 32" to 60" long
- Stitch markers: 2 required, plus up to 6 additional optional markers
- Tapestry needle for weaving in ends
- Scissors for cutting steek
Gauge
Worked in the round after blocking:
- 19 sts and 22 rounds = 4 inches in stranded colourwork
- Chart C or E: 8" x 3.75"
- Chart H or L: 6.5" x 8"
4 comments:
HI. I just bought and read through the instructions for the "Between the Dragon and His Wrap" pattern and I am confused about the instructions for the bottom edge. It says to knit row one and then join in the round, and knit a few more rounds and then to the increase for the fringe.
Later at the end, you cut through all the stitches to make the fringe. Isn't this going to cut through the initial few rounds as well? What am I missing?
You're not increasing for the fringe. The fringe stitches are always there right from the beginning, and the number of fringe stitches never changes. The purpose of the increasing (which happens exclusively on the NON-fringe stitches) is to make up for the gauge difference between the garter stitch edging and the stranded knitting main portion. All of which to say, yes, you will eventually be cutting through the initial few rounds and the last few rounds (i.e. both of the garter stitch edges) as well as the stranded knitting section, but in all cases, you will be cutting up the middle of the STEEK stitches (which in the garter stitch sections are also worked in garter stitch). Hope this helps!
I woke up in the middle of the night and said to myself, "Wait, maybe I read that wrong" So when I got just now I re-read the increase round instructions. I see that the increases are only on the body of the scarf not the fringe.
Thank you for responding so quickly.
I will probably be casting this on today.
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