This a listing for kit to make Contessa Shawl - a knitted shawl by Justyna Lorkowska using CGY Contessa.
Each kit includes 2 skeins of Contessa in colorway Ocean. It also contains CGY cotton tote bag.
Contessa is a luxurious blend of ultrafine merino, silk and cashmere. The yarn has 2 plies and a medium twist. This combination allows room for the cashmere fibres to bloom and the merino fibres to plump up and support them. It is ideal for lace as the 2 plies roll away from each other to open up the lacework and reveal the pattern.
400m/439y per 100g
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The kit does not contain the pattern. Contessa Shawl can be purchased on Ravelry and JustynaKnits.com.
From pattern notes:
“She’s a balance of strength and femininity. She’s a blend of silly and serious. She’s a dreamer with her feel still on the ground. The kind of person that can find sun rays in a rainstorm. She is once in a lifetime woman.”
The shawl begins at the top center and is worked outwards to the border.The main section is worked in Garter stitch with 6 rows of eyelets, then the knitted-on border is worked in a twisted rib feather pattern with a lace edge.
Size
One: approx. 180 cm/72” wide and 46 cm/18” long at center.
Yarn
2 skeins of Contessa by Cecily Grove Yarns (75% merino, 15% silk, 10% cashmere; 400m/437y per 100g) or any other fingering weight yarn which gives you the correct gauge.
Shown in colorway Ocean.
Needles
3.5 mm/US #4 circular needle (100 cm/40” long), or size needed for gauge.
Other
2 stitch markers, locking marker, 2 cable needles, tapestry needle for weaving.
Gauge
19 sts and 44 rows = 10 cm/4” in Garter st measured flat after wet blocking.
The gauge isn’t crucial on this project, but differences will affect the finished size as well as the required yardage, so I strongly recommend making a swatch and adjusting the needle size as necessary.
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I try to depict the true color of yarn but please remember each monitor will be different.
If you have any questions regarding the color, feel free to contact me via email.
