Ripen

Ripen is a striking one-skein shawl with a leafy edging and an all-around lace border. The shawl is knit in one piece from side to side. Featuring a spice-colored yarn and optional bead details, Ripen lets you hold on to the last of the rustling fall leaves when winter really sets in.

Required Skills Working intermediate lace from charts, increases/decreases, double decreases, knit and purl patterning on wrong side rows, bead placement with crochet hook (optional)

Gauge 22 sts and 32 rows = 4” (10 cm) in St St after blocking

Sizes One size, can be customized easily with directions given.

Finished Measurements Length: 19” (48.5 cm) Width: 45” (114 cm)

Yarn Rocky Mountain Dyeworks Bow Falls Fingering, 100% superwash Blue Faced Leicester (430 yds/393 m, 3.5 oz/100 g skein), color Falling Leaves: 1 skein

Needles/Hooks US 3 (3.25 mm) circular needles, 24”, or size required to obtain gauge US 11/12 (1 mm) crochet hook, or size required to fit through ho