This pattern is available on Ravelry . No purling required! "Nuvem" is Portuguese and means "Cloud". I picked this name because this shawl is light as a feather, super-warm and cozy, and its ruffled edge makes it look like a little cloud if you wrap it around your neck and shoulders several times. This one will warm you on chilly winter evenings on the sofa and will protect you on cold winter days outside under or over your favorite coat. In a colorful, hand-dyed laceweight yarn, it looks beautiful without using any complicated stitches. In fact, once you are done casting on, there are only knit stitches (no purling required!) and simple increases. If you have a beautiful, big skein of multicolored lace yarn and you are in the mood for a long, relaxing haul of almost mindless knitting, this is the project for you! Also, a good "first big project" for beginning knitters. Nuvem is shaped as a very long hexagon, which makes it very versatile: It replaces a cardigan when just thrown over the shoulders, it transforms to a big, long scarf when folded lengthwise, and it can be anything in between. You start in the middle using Judy's magic cast-on and knit in the round until 20% of your yarn is left. Then you create the ruffle and bind off. For the size shown in the pictures, you will need around 1590m (1740 yards) of laceweight. You can make this shawl using less yarn, but naturally it will come out smaller. Suggested yarn Hedgehog Fibres Merino Lace Yarn weight Lace Gauge 21 stitches and 30 rows = 4 inches in stockinette in the round Needle size US 4 - 3.5 mm Yardage 1728 - 1739 yards (1580 - 1590 m) Sizes available length: ca. 170 cm, width: ca. 75 cm
