Today I'm excited to announce the release of Dunedin as a PDF download!
Dunedin was originally designed for the Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2016 companion magazine, Wool Tribe, which was on sale at the festival back in March and was a great hit, selling out very quickly. Unfortunately, due to the speed with which we got the magazine together, some errors crept in to the pattern - so I'm very pleased to finally be able to offer a corrected and revised version of this pattern! If you have bought the original Wool Tribe magazine and are having difficuties completing Dunedin, please just get in touch with me at lucy@lucyhague.co.uk and I'll be happy to send you a free copy of the updated version of this pattern (and to help you with any queries you might have).
This shawl features a cabled border, which is worked first, then a shallow half-circular body which is worked upwards from the border and shaped with a combination of short rows and decreases. The version pictured uses approx. 1 100g skein of 4-ply/fingering weight yarn; this newly edited and revised version of the pattern also includes a larger semi-circular sized shawl, which uses approx. 2 100g skeins of 4-ply/fingering weight yarn.
The design process for this shawl was unexpectedly very difficult (partly due the time constraints!) and involved quite a few sleepless nights as I tried to get all the calculations correct and finish the sample in time for it to be photographed for the magazine. Whilst the cable pattern is pretty simple compared to many of my designs, the short row calculations proved to be something of a nightmare to calculate correctly in order to get the shape I wanted - a very shallow-half circle that curves around the shoulders, somewhere between a scarf and a shawl.
I had to rip out and reknit the body section so, so many times to get it right, but I'm glad I persevered, because the final shape is exactly what I wanted. In fact, I think out of all the shawls I've made, this is the one I enjoy wearing the most! If you saw me at Edinburgh Yarn Festival this year, you may have noticed me wearing it.
Which reminds me - here's a silly picture of my friend Graeme and I at EYF 2016! (I'm wearing Dunedin and he's wearing a Jayne Firefly hat that I made him for his birthday).
And, also at EYF 2016, here I am with the lovely Karie Westermann (Karie is wearing her Burnet hat, also featured in Wool Tribe).
I'd like to close this post by thanking the EYF team for getting me involved in Wool Tribe, and thanks also to Helen of Ripples Crafts for providing the yarn for this shawl (it's her Quinag Bluefaced Leicester 4-ply in 'Stormy Seas' - the most beautiful teal-blue I think I've ever seen!).