Painted Plumes

Painted Plumes shaw combines a love of hand-dyed yarns and lace. If you have ever been tempted by a beautiful skein of multi-coloured yarn only to be disappointed once it is wound and the colours muddled, this is the pattern for you.

Painted Plumes was designed specifically to showcase tonal and variegated yarns. Wings of stockinet stitch provide room to pool while a feathery center panel and lace border add elegance and intrigue to the shawl without detracting from multi-coloured yarns.

Rapid increases give this shawl a wide but shallow shape making it easy to wear. Increases are worked into the lace design eliminating the center stitch that runs up most top-down shawls and creating a rounded tip.

Knit in a silk blend lace weight yarn for a light and breezy summer shawl that drapes nicely over the shoulders or wool fingering for a warmer shawl.