Shawl "Clematis", the scheme and description of the manufacture of which will be presented in our article, is a knitted product of incredible beauty in a semicircular shape. Her creation is based on Herbert Nibling's napkin. She was very beautiful and was made in the form of a circle or a semicircle. On average, the size of such a shawl is 120 cm wide and 55 in height, but they can be varied for yourself. Knitting this shawl is quite complicated and painstaking work, but the result is worth it.
Preparation for work
So, we already know that the Clematis shawl, the scheme and description of which will be discussed in this article, has the shape of a semicircle. If the standard sizes (1.2 m by 0.55 m) are not suitable, then you can change them. But it is within the power of experienced knitters.
In order to tie this thing, linen, cotton, bamboo or wool yarn is useful. It is very important that the threads contain natural fibers (approximate footage - 500 meters per 100 grams). The consumption of yarn during operation will be approximately one hundred grams.
Knitting needles, a hook and twenty markers are also useful in work.
We read correctly
Shawl Clematis is usually knitted with needles, starting from the center of the upper cervical margin and advancing to the lower border.
The upper edge of the shawl is a ribbon of several loops - 2, 3 or 4 (as you like - to choose from). They must be knitted both in the front and in the back rows, exclusively facial loops. To create a ribbon, you should remove the first hem, without knitting, then insert the needle from right to left (as with the wrong knitting), the thread should be on top of the work; knit other loops with the front, both in the front and in the back rows. The last edge loop of the tape must be tied to the front of the back wall.
This is how we need to start work, so that in the end we get the beautiful Clematis shawl. Its scheme (or rather, all schemes) should be read from the right to the left and from bottom to top. In these schemes, only the front rows are indicated. And in the wrong side, all the loops must be knitted on the wrong side, unless there are any separately specified ones (this should be seen in the legend). Empty cells do not indicate anything.
How to "cut" rapport
Due to the fact that the original design scheme was made for knitting a round napkin, in order to work on a shawl, on the schemes yellow lines indicate the "section" of rapport. So that you can knit a cloth with turns in different directions - front and back.
This is how the Clematis shawl fits in. The diagram and description presented in this article give an idea of everything.
The buttonhole, which is marked on both sides with a yellow marker, will be the first in the row after the ribbon on the right and the last in front of the ribbon on the left.
As a result, it seems that one rapport is, as it were, subjected to cutting, while its left part will be knitted at the beginning of the row (everything starts with a loop that is marked with yellow lines), and the right one will be at the end of the row and will end just like that - a loop marked yellow marker.
Among such a half rapport, several full rapports should be connected - 4, 5, 6 or 7. Therefore, the Clematis shawl after the completion of work on it will look like a drape cape. This workflow is designed for five rapports.
First circuit
The first stage of work involves knitting, in which scheme No. 1 is used. At the very beginning, three or four loops should be knitted. Then you need to knit twenty rows on the basis of the garter stitch (this will be the beginning of the tape). After all, on the edge of the long side of the tape, you need to dial ten loops, after which you need to raise three or four stitched loops on the right needle. In total, sixteen or eighteen loops should form on the spoke (here the complete dependence on the width of the tape is three or four loops).
That's how the Clematis shawl begins to be knitted. The scheme and description (it is knitted with knitting needles more often than with a crochet) makes it clear that this is really a laborious job.
Knitting a shawl further occurs on the basis of the first pattern from the very beginning, that is, from the first row. On the seventeenth row, the craftswoman should rotate the rapport several times - five (among the ribbons).
In the nineteenth row among the ribbons you need to make a yarn, five rapports, a yarn.
In the twenty-first row there is a ribbon, one front loop, a crochet, then the whole rapport to the left to the end, four whole rapports, a crochet, one front loop, a ribbon. In the twenty-third row there is a ribbon, two front loops, a crochet, the entire report to the very end, four whole rapports, two front rails, a ribbon.
Similarly, knit further based on the pattern.
The second and third schemes
Very carefully, even an experienced craftswoman should knit shawl "Clematis". The circuit or circuits are attached to it, but you must be very careful.
Working with the second scheme is not difficult. Here it will be necessary to knit until the end of a series of patterns and do this five times. The series ends, without which it is impossible to connect the Clematis shawl (description given a very detailed) loop in the yellow column.
Now the next, third stage. Knitting here goes strictly according to scheme 3. From 150 to 108 rows - all the front surface. Such a strip can go along the front side of the Clematis shawl with front or back loops (it all depends on the preferences of the craftswoman).
The edge begins with the 109th row. In this case, the rapport must be knitted ten times in all rows.
Note: one out of ten rapports should be halved. The left part will be knitted at the very beginning of the row, after the tape (starts with a loop that is marked with yellow lines). The right one will be at the end of the row, in front of the ribbon. It will also end with loops that are marked with yellow lines.
Attention to work will not hurt
It should be noted that in the 109th row among ribbons should be 321 loops (this is five rapports).
When knitting the 124th row, craftswomen should mark the crochets with markers (mark them in front of them). These crochets in the wrong row are knitted with two loops (this is done in order to distinguish them from ordinary crochets that are knitted with simple purl loops).
Further, the craftswoman should be extremely careful: the 130th row - the wrong loops do not fit, and the previous one - the 129th, will be final. It must be knitted according to the scheme, completely without crochets. In this case, the craftswoman knits this 129th row freely.
The loops of the final row should be closed.
In conclusion
This is how the Clematis shawl fits. The diagram and description (hooks should close the loops of the final row) make it possible to clearly understand what and how to do it. According to the scheme, it is necessary to knit as many stitches as before with as many stitches as they are indicated (this is in the place where the braces are combined); Among the columns, eight air loops of arches must be connected.
Now it will not be difficult to understand how the Clematis shawl fits. The scheme and description of all the work from beginning to end will enable the craftswoman to do everything as accurately as possible and later enjoy the result of her work.