Minimi's Shawl or Cardigan

If you love knitting lace but find lace shawls hard to wear, you may love this loose fitting cardigan. It comes with lots of free flowing panels that show off the delicacy of lace. It can either be dressed up as an evening wrap or dressed down as a beach cover up. It can even be rolled up and thrown over the shoulder as a shawl. When used as a shawl, the side slits allow free movement of the arms. As a lace weight cardigan, it can easily be tucked in your purse.

The stitch pattern is suitable for lace beginner, all the lace stitches are worked on right sides only and there is no shaping involved in the lace section of the cardigan. This cardigan is worked from the bottom-up in pieces, which makes it an ideal traveling knitting project.

Both written and charted directions are given for the stitch pattern. Measurements are given in both centimeters and inches.

The sample was knit in The Gossamer Web Firebird. A substitute yarn is shown below.