Blood on the Tracks

Blood on the Tracks

$7.00

Using 2 skeins of a main color and less than 85 yds / 80 m of 5 contrast colors (from a a mini-skein set, your stash or a long-changing gradient), create Blood on the Tracks (nod to Dylan), a semi-circular brioche shawl knitted from the bottom up with a wide brioche shawl and alternating bands of garter and brioche ribbing.

Finished Measurements 
• Wingspan: 59½” / 151cm 
• Circumference: 25” / 63.5cm

Shown on a 5’2” / 1.57m model.

Yarn 
Julie Asselin Leizu Fingering 
90% superwash Merino, 10% silk 
420 yds / 385m per 115g 
• 2 skeins (MC) 
• 1 mini-skein gradient set (CCs) 
Shown in colors Horacio (MC) & Septembre (CC)

or

• 575 yds / 526m fingering weight yarn (MC) 
• 43 yds / 40m fingering weight yarn (CC1) 
• 66 yds / 61m fingering weight yarn (CC2) 
• 80 yds / 73m fingering weight yarn (CC3) 
• 84 yds / 77m fingering weight yarn (CC4) 
• 62 yds / 57m fingering weight yarn (CC5) 
CCs are listed lightest to darkest

Needles 
• US 4 3.5mm needles

Gauge 
• 20 sts and 32 rows = 4” / 10cm in garter stitch, blocked

Gauge is not critical to this project’s construction, however a change in gauge will affect the finished fabric and measurements, as well as the yarn requirements.

Notions 
• tapestry needle 
• locking stitch marker (optional)

Skills Used 
• brioche 
• 2 color Italian cast-on 
• reading charts (optional) 
• decreasing

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