Lemon slice shawl

Lemon Slice Shawl by Miss Tejidos Designs

Project Overview

The Lemon Slice Shawl is a beginner-friendly knitted shawl designed by Miss Tejidos Designs. This downloadable PDF pattern creates a bright, summery accessory featuring a distinctive lemon-inspired construction with alternating stockinette and lace sections that build upon each other to create visual interest and texture.

What Is Being Made

A triangular or crescent-shaped shawl measuring 102 centimeters in width and 39 centimeters in length. The design uses a modular construction approach, beginning with a small cast-on and progressively increasing through multiple pattern sections to achieve its final dimensions. The shawl is shown in a cheerful yellow colorway, evoking the appearance of a lemon slice.

Craft and Techniques

Primary Craft: Knitting

This project employs fundamental knitting techniques suitable for beginners, including:

• Stockinette Stitch Section: The foundational fabric created by alternating knit rows on the right side with purl rows on the wrong side, producing a smooth, classic knitted appearance
• Lace Section: An openwork pattern that introduces decorative holes and creates a lighter, more delicate aesthetic through strategic yarn overs and decreases
• Increases: Multiple increase methods are used throughout, including yarn overs (yo) for both functional shaping and decorative lace effects, and make one (M1) increases for seamless stitch additions
• Decreases: The pattern uses pass slip stitch over (pso) decreases within the lace sections to balance increases and create the characteristic lace motifs
• Modular Construction: The pattern alternates between stockinette and lace sections, allowing knitters to build the shawl in distinct phases and potentially customize the final size

Stitches Used

The Lemon Slice Shawl utilizes the following essential stitches:

• Knit (k): The fundamental stitch creating the right-side fabric
• Purl (p): Used to create the wrong-side rows in stockinette sections and edge stitches
• Yarn Over (yo): Creates both increases and decorative holes characteristic of lace patterns
• Make One (M1): An invisible increase technique used in lace sections for seamless shaping
• Pass Slip Stitch Over (pso): A decrease method that passes a knitted stitch over others, used in lace motifs

Materials and Specifications

Yarn: Katia Degradé in 100% cotton, shown in yellow. The pattern requires 3 skeins with 115 meters per skein, providing approximately 345 meters of yarn total. The DK weight yarn creates a lightweight, breathable fabric ideal for a summer shawl.

Needles: 5mm needles are used throughout the project.

Gauge: 15 stitches by 22 rows equals 10 centimeters in stockinette stitch. The pattern notes that gauge is not crucial for this project, though adjusting gauge will affect yarn requirements if you wish to modify the finished dimensions.

Difficulty Level: Beginner. The pattern uses only basic knitting stitches and straightforward increases and decreases, making it accessible to knitters new to shawl construction.

Pattern Structure

The Lemon Slice Shawl follows a progressive building method. Knitters begin by casting on 9 stitches and knitting 3 rows to establish edges. The first stockinette section involves repeating two rows with yarn overs at strategic points until reaching 57 stitches. The subsequent lace section introduces the decorative pso decrease combined with yarn overs, building to 69 stitches. The pattern then continues alternating between stockinette and lace sections, creating a layered visual effect that resembles the segments of a lemon slice.