Aspasia

Aspasia is a simple geometric lace stole designed to work expertly with a variegated yarn and short color repeats. A combination of biased eyelets and mock cables are worked in an unusual rectangular shape in the round. The short ends are worked with a large increasing diagonal line pattern, and then decreased to a point back and forth after the main body of the shawl. Adorned with a simple border, this stole is wide enough to cover the shoulders and long enough to be wrapped around the neck twice.

SIZE: Onesize

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS AFTER BLOCKING: Width: 18.5 including borders. Length: 70 including borders.

MATERIALS Knitpicks, Imagination [50% merino, 25% alpaca, 25% nylon; 219yds/50g]; colorway Atlantis 4 skeins 1 US 6/4mm 60-inch circular needle

1 US 6/4mm 32-inch circular needle

Tapestry needle, markers

GAUGE 20sts/40 rows = 5 in charted pattern after blocking, gauge is not essential for this project.