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Queen Mab Shawl Pattern
Category:
KnittingType:
AccessoryFit:
Women, GirlsItem:
ShawlSkill Level:
Intermediate
Basic Skills Necessary:
- Basic lace knitting
- Beading your knitting with a crochet hook
Pattern Description:
With 500 seed beads that sparkle like moonbeams in mist this crescent shaped shawlette is reminiscent of the mantle that fairy Queen Mab might draw around herself as she flies through the night bestowing sweet dreams upon slumbering mortals.
"In bed asleep while they do dream things true
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you...
Her collars of the moonshine's wat'ry beams...
Through lover's brains and then they dream of love..."
-- Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Act I; Scene IV
This pattern contains both charted and written instructions.
Gauge:
16 stitches to 4" in stockinette stitch blocked
Sizing / Finished Measurements:
- 60" wingspan & 15" depth
Materials:
- 437-450 yards fingering weight yarn
- 500 size 6/0 seed beads
- Size US 5/3.75 mm needles
- tapestry needle for weaving in ends
- crochet hook small enough to fit into your beads
Queen Mab Shawl Pattern
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About the Designer
Nina Machlin Dayton has been knitting, designing and teaching for 35 years. A native New Yorker, Nina currently lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, 2 cats and a dog in an old Victorian house filled to the rafters with yarn and books.
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