With experienced designer & shawl enthusiast Karie Westermann, learn how to design and calculate your own shawls in just a few hours! Together you will look at how shawls are constructed, learn how to insert stitch patterns into shawls and figure out how to think outside the box.  

Tutor: Karie Westermann

Ability: Knit, purl, working a yarnover and doing at least one decrease

How to read an easy lace chart

Must have knitted at least two shawls

Materials Needed: 1 ball of 4ply (at least 50% natural fibres)

1 pair of 4mm needles(straight or circular –if circular, then 24” preferred)

Selection of stitch markers

Pencil, graph paper, calculator and eraser

Tapestry needle