Belle Epoque Shawl

Yesterday Mr. SpiderKate and I went out and did a photo shoot for my new pattern, Belle Epoque.  Whenever I need (want) to take photos of a shawl it is guaranteed to be a wind day and yesterday was no exception.  It was very windy.  Ugh.  The good news is that Mr. SpiderKate was very patient and 180 photos later, we called it a day.  

For this particular photo shoot, we took a trip to a nearby park.  Neither of us had been to this park before, so it was nice to see that it was actually well kept and had a lot of walkways.  There was also a little pond at this park that apparently is home to a million turtles.  Okay, so it wasn't million but I counted at least 8 turtles.  Just sitting at the edge of the pond was enough to draw turtles over.  I'm guessing that people feed them so that's why they swim over.  We didn't have any food for them and thus the turtles quickly lost interest in us.

"Why didn't you bring us any food??"

Anyway, on to the shawl details!  This shawl is a twist on the traditional top down triangle shawl in that it is composed of 3 triangles instead of 2.  The extra triangle gives a lot of depth to the shawl and because of that, you can easily cover your arms for instant warmth on cool mornings & nights.  To me, the shawl looks like a mix of a crescent & triangle shawl.  I wasn't really expecting this when I started knitting it, in fact I was excepting the shawl to have a semi-circular shape, but I was really happy once I realized it was taking this crescent + triangle shape.

Belle Epoque was knit with 2 skeins of Manos del Uruguay lace weight yarn.  The actual amount of yarn used was 84 grams, which is 736 yards, knit on a US 5 (3.75 mm) 40" circular needle.  The shawl is not knit in the round, but by the end there are around 500+ stitches, making the circular needle a necessity.   This pattern is available for purchase in my Ravelry shop here: SpiderKate Knits Designs.