A Warm Half-square Shawl.
German wool—used double.—Needles, No. 6.—Scarlet, and four shades of bright green slate colour, form a pretty contrast. The shawl should be worked in alternate stripes of the two colours; each stripe being composed of four patterns,—that is, one pattern in each shade of the green slate colour, and four patterns in scarlet.
Cast on two hundred and forty stitches with the lightest shade of slate colour.
First row—bring the wool forward, slip one; knit two, pass the slip-stitch over them.—Repeat to the end of the row, except on the two last stitches, which are to be knitted together.
Second row—pearl knitting.
Repeat these two rows, with the three other shades of slate colour,—decreasing (by knitting two together) at the end of every pattern row.
With the scarlet wool, knit four patterns, in a similar manner.
Two stripes, of an equal width, will thus be formed;—the one, composed of four shades of slate colour, and the other, of scarlet. These are to be repeated, alternately, until the half square be finished.
A fringe for this shawl may be knitted with scarlet, as follows.