For lace fishou you will need 2 skeins of Kid mohair ALIZE (62% mohair, 38% polyamide, 25 g - 250 m), needles No. 5.
Cast on stitches: cast on 309 stitches on 2 needles at the same time, so that there is a small distance between them. The “patternedness” of the edge of the fichu depends on how freely they are typed.
The first row, for fastening, is knitted with purl loops. It is he who determines which side of our product will be left and which side will be right.
Start knitting each row with 1 edge loop (knit) and end it with 19 report loops (see.drawing) plus an edge knit stitch. Knit strictly according to the pattern, repeating 18 reports in a row. There are only 18 loops in each report. In the presented figure, for convenience, the edge loops are marked in yellow, the additional loop for the last, eighteenth, report is green, and the squares of loops that are not there are shaded in blue (that is, when knitting, you simply skip them, as if you don’t see them) .
Having knitted all 48 rows of the openwork pattern, we begin to knit the shortened rows. They are knitted as follows:
1) Knit to the middle of the fichu, mark this place with a marker for convenience. Then perform another 15 loops.
2) Turn the work to the wrong side. Slip the first stitch as a purl and knit 15+15 stitches. And again turn the work to the front side.
3) Knit 29 loops, and knit the 30th together with the loop from the previous row (i.e. 2 loops together). Thanks to this, “holes” will not appear on the product. Next we knit 3 more loops and turn the work again.
4) Knit the 4th row like this: 18 sts + 14 sts + 2 sts together + 3 sts. And again turn the fish to the right side.
5) We knit each subsequent row in the same way as 3, 4 shortened rows, only the number of knitted loops on the knitting needles will increase each time, since in each row we add 3 stitches from the rows that have not yet been knitted without a pattern.
When all the shortened rows are knitted, knit the 43rd and 45th rows of the pattern again as an edge decoration. Using a hook, loosely close the edge of the fichu. It is better to take a very thick hook, if this is not the case, then you can do it this way: after each closed loop, pick up one air loop.
Thread the tails of the loose threads. You should end up with a scarf like this:
Wash the fish very carefully in a solution of water and shampoo. Wring the shawl through the towel, rolling them into a “roll” and pressing lightly. After shaping the fichu, stretching out the carved edges, secure them with needles to the surface - block the scarf until it dries completely.
And your openwork, thin and very warm cape is ready.
