Courant

This elegant stole is a combination of slipped stitch colorwork and Estonian Lace techniques producing color-work lace. You are only ever working with one strand of yarn at a time, knitting stripes and slipping stitches. You are only ever working with one strand of yarn at a time, knitting stripes and slipping stitches. The way the slipped stitches interact with the increases and decreases of the lacework creates the intricate color patterning.

Skills needed: provisional cast on, chart reading, simple and complex decreases, single and double YO. There are decreases in this pattern that were created specifically to manipulate the colorwork into the correct sequence - these are explained in the pattern.

You must be able to read charts to work this pattern.