Digital download (1 PDF).
Pattern languages: English, Spanish and German.

Pattern info

‘Liberty Ferry’ is a design rich in both graphic impact and symbolic meaning. Sweeping diagonal lines cascade down to an elegant braided cable, creating a rhythmic, classic pattern that is perfect for either solid or tonally dyed yarns.

The shawl has a deeper significance as well: it is a memento of a visit to New York’s cherished icon, Lady Liberty, and it suggests how people from different lands, each following his or her own path, can be brought together by knitting, as their lives intertwine in a harmonious and rewarding shared experience.

Liberty Ferry has an asymmetrical shape with a built-in I-cord edge and is worked flat from the right tip to the left edge. The cable section runs through the entire shawl. The pattern is fully written out with stitch counts and is also charted.

Yarn

3 skeins GigglingGecko Yarns, Giggling Sportlandia (100% SW merino, 100 gr-yds/262m).

Sample yardage, 798yds/730m in color Creme.
Or any Sportweight yarn: approx. 766-875yds (700-800m).

Materials

24” (minimum 60 cm) circular or straight needles.
US 7 (4.50mm).
US 8 (5.00 mm).
Cable needle, stitch markers, tapestry needle.

Gauge - blocked 4" (10 cm)

Cable pattern, 28 stitches x 32 rows.
Garter slip stitch pattern, 17 stitches x 34 rows.
Gauge is not crucial at all, but will affect final size and yardage.

Finished dimensions

Approx. 84.6” (215 cm) wingspan along top edge x 25.6“ (65 cm) width.

Adjustments

Adjustments are provided in the pattern.
Different sizes and fits can also be achieved by altering yarn weight and/or needle size(s).