by Mia Rinde

With knitting needles and lace techniques, we carve out little cameos in our own knitting way. With yarn as precious as gemstones and a crafter's agile hands, the embossed little flowers will soon appear.

Cameo Flower is a large crescent shaped shawl, it has a stockinette start with a triple-spine and extra increases at the edges, giving it its shape. This is followed by a lace pattern that flows over the entire shawl – no need to keep track of spines anymore!

SIZE
Small(Worsted weight)[Large(fingering weight)]

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Worsted-weight (purple) version
Width: 40 inches
Length: 15 inches

Fingering-weight (blue-green) version
Width: 45 inches
Length: 18.5 inches

MATERIALS
Yarn
Worsted-weight version (shown above)
Malabrigo Rios [100% merino; 210yd/192m per 100g skein]; color: Lavanda; 2 skeins

Fingering-weight version (shown below)
Lioness Arts BFL Sock [100% wool; 437yd/400m per 100g skein]; color: I'll Never Grow Up; 2 skeins

Recommended needle size
[always use a needle size that gives you the gauge listed below — every knitter's gauge is unique]
32-inch US #8/5mm circular needle for worsted-weight version
32-inch US #4/3.5mm circular needle for fingering-weight version

Notions
crochet hook and scrap yarn for provisional cast-on.
yarn needle

GAUGE
Worsted weight version
14 sts/24 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch
10 sts/24 rows = 4 inches in pattern stitch

Fingering weight version
20 sts/33 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch
17 sts/33 rows = 4 inches in pattern stitch

PATTERN NOTES
[Knitty's list of standard abbreviations and techniques can be found here.]

Provisional Cast on
This project uses a provisional cast on. Use your preferred provisional cast on technique; directions for one technique may be found here.

Note: Instructions are written for the worsted weight shawl first, with the numbers for the fingering weight shawl in brackets.

CDD: Slip 2 sts together (as if to k2tog), k1, then pass the 2 slipped sts over.

C2R: Skip the first stitch and knit into the second stitch on the needle (passing in front of the first stitch); knit the first stitch, and slip both off the needle.

DIRECTIONS

Pick up and knit 3 stitches in the garter ridges, undo the provisional cast on and return the 2 stitches of the provisional cast on to the needle.  7 stitches.

Row 1 [RS]: K2, yo, (kfb, yo) 3 times, k2. 14 sts.

Rows 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 [WS]: K2, p to last 2 sts, k2.

Row 3 [RS]: K1, (k1, yo) twice, k2, yo, k4, yo, k2, (yo, k1) twice, k1. 20 sts.

Row 5 [RS]: K1, (k1, yo) twice, k to last 3 sts, (yo, k1) twice, k1. 24 sts.

Row 7 [RS]: K2, yo, k1, yo, k4, (yo, k2) 6 times, k2, (yo, k1) twice, k1. 34 sts.

Row 9 [RS]: K1, (k1, yo) twice, k8, pm, (k6, pm) twice, k8, (yo, k1) twice, k1. 38 sts.

Repeat Rows 11-14 8[20] more times. 164[332] sts.

Note: WS rows of the chart pattern are purled, so although they do appear in the chart, they’re not specifically referred to in the instructions below.

Next row [RS]: K1, (k1, yo) twice, work Carving Flowers chart across, working the repeat 12[26] times, to last 3 sts, (yo, k1) twice, k1.

Next row [WS]: K2, p to last 2 sts, k2.
Work as set until chart is complete, ending with a WS row. 198[352] sts when chart is complete.

Next row [RS]: K1, (k1, yo) twice work Filigree chart across, working the repeat 16[30] times, to last 3 sts, (yo, k1) twice, k1.

Next row [WS]: K2, p to last 2 sts, k2.

Work as set until chart is complete, ending with a RS row, chart Row 15. 309[533] sts when chart is complete.

Bind off as follows: P1, *p1, slip these 2 stitches back onto left needle, p2tog; repeat from * until all sts have been worked. Break yarn and pull through final st to secure.

FINISHING
Soak and block your shawl. Weave in ends.

Mia started knitting to keep her hand busy with other things than eating cookies, not realizing that this was the start of a new and even stronger obsession. She now knits and designs all the time that is left between physiology studies and family life.

More of Mia’s designs can be found on Ravelry.