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The peeries came from Alice Starmore’s Book of Fairisle Knitting.
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My changes to the pattern:
All yarn over increases were changed to increases into the bump below the knit stitch that you want to increase into, pull a loop through the bump then knit into the stitch – one stitch increase. (See Barbara Walker’s Knitting from the Top)
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There are ten increase lines from the neck to the widest part of the shoulder. Then the center eight increases stop and only the two for the fronts – one on each side of the front remain to the hem.
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The Shawlette was knit flat, which means color work on purl rows.
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Sandi’s Comfort Shawl version of the pattern starts off with the neckband. Here I changed the seed stitch borders to garter stitch. I converted her stitches into inches per her gauge and applied it to my gauge. So she starts with 52 rows so that you can pick up 26 stitches plus the original 7 that were cast on and the 7 that you unzip = 40 sts. At her gauge of 4.5 st/in that equals 8.8″. Then I multiply 8.8″ by my gauge 5 st/in to get 44 sts. That means I have 7 stitches from the cast on, I picked up 30 sts. and another 7 sts. from the unzip = 44. Increase into every non border stitch in the next row and get 61 sts + 14 for the borders = 75. I placed my markers for increases using the same logic, at:
7 m 9 m 9 m 25 m 9 m 9 m 7
The increases are made to the right of the first marker, on both sides of the next four markers and to the left of the last marker = 10 increases per row. The increases continue in the manner for 5″, or to when your shoulder starts to slope down. Then drop the middle eight increases and only increase at the borders to the hem. I knit garter stitch rows at the hem to match the borders.