Uplift Shawl

About the Uplift Shawl

Designed by Rosemary (Romi Hill) in Julie Asselin's Nurtured, the Uplift shawl requires a little more than 2 skeins of color A (Fonte or dark grey in the sample), and a little more than 3 skeins of Color B (Miel or gold in the sample). Those with a tighter gauge or more generous skeins may be able to get away with 2 and 3 skeins, respectively. If you have extra Nurtured, we recommend checking out the amazing Winter Garden hat in Knitrino, also designed for Nurtured! 

Reading the Charts

The pattern is worked flat, and uses standard charting conventions. When reading a chart for a Knitrino pattern that is worked flat, odd rows are the front side (or right side) rows, and even rows are the back side (or wrong side) rows. When looking at the chart, it's like you're looking at the front of your work. When you are working your first frontside row, you read the chart from right to left, complete the row, and turn your work to work the back side rows.  Since your chart is showing the front side of the fabric only, the backside (even) rows, are read from left to right. Knitrino will automatically bring you to the correct position for the start of the row. We recognize that these standard conventions are terrible for some left handed knitters, and are working on new tools for lefties. 

For patterns or sections worked flat, you will see several visual cues.

• The backside rows will have light hashmarks on the stitch symbols
• When the backside row is the active row, clicking on any of these stitches will indicate that it's a backside row and will contain the appropriate instruction for what do to on that row. For example, a backside row that has a dark dot on it that looks like a purl stitch will tell you that it's a backside knit stitch. You knit the stitch to create a purl dot on the front side. 
• The text instruction labels will use the term Row instead of Round

Troubleshooting your lace

Those new to lace should be sure to use stitch markers between each repeating motif. On the "backside" or "wrongside" rows, count your stitches between each marker - we show this technique in the beginning of the video below.  (Note, this video uses the Solaris Wrap, but the approach is the same!)

If a stitch is missing, the most common culprit is a missing yarnover. You can add it back without frogging by lifting up the leg between the two stitches where it should go, and placing it on the needle: instant yarnover! 

If you find a mistake a few rows down, you can drop down and fix it. You may choose to use lifelines, but you can also drop down without lifelines - just count how many strands are loose behind the work to know how many rows you've dropped down. Keep watching the above video to see how to do this. 

Blocking

Use T-pins or blocking pins to pull up the top of each diamond, which will create a scalloped edge.