Fairfield
Designed by Alethea
Drexler, December 2016. Please share as
much as you like but keep my name on it.
This was knit originally as a shawl
but it is, admittedly, a bit tedious and a moderately skilled knitter will probably
prefer it as a scarf, with a narrower border. The finished piece has a plain
body with raised lines, a diagonal rib border, and is reversible.
This
is written for worsted-weight yarn (Lion Brand Wool-Ease; a lot. Like eight skeins) on a 32-inch US8
cable needle. The original shawl had 12
rows of border on each end and 10 stitches of border on each side; a scarf would
probably look better with a narrower border and would need fewer rows/stitches.
Cast on stitches in a multiple of 8 + 7, plus
the stitches you need for your border.
For a large-ish shawl, I cast on 16 full pattern repeats, so:
8*16 + 7 + 10*2 = 155
. . . which
ended up being just about 30 inches wide.
The chart below shows two pattern repeats.
The most important thing to remember here is
to always purl the slipped stitch on the opposite side so that it creates the
raised line.
Border
pattern (by far the harder part!):
Row
1: K2, P2 to end (you will end with a single stitch of either knit or purl)
Row
2: P2, K2 to end. From now on, all wrong-side border stitches will mirror the right-side
stitches: Purl the RS knit stitches and knit the RS purl stitches.
Row
3: P1, then K2, P2 to end.
Row
5: P2, K2 to end.
Row
7: K1, then P2, K2 to end.
Continue this pattern, moving the rib pattern
over by one purl or knit stitch as needed at the beginning of every RS row,
even after you begin the pattern body.
Body:
All
RS rows: Knit 3, *slip 1 stitch purlwise, knit 3, purl 1, knit 3*, knit 3
All
WS rows: Knit 3, *purl 1, knit 3, slip 1 stitch purlwise, knit 3*, knit 3
Pattern
chart
(thank you, Stitch Fiddle)
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