Feather and Fan Prayer Shawl

 Feather and Fan Prayer Shaw

Size 10 Needles

800 yards of 4 weight worsted weight yarn - I used Caron One pound of pale green.

Pattern

Cast on 82 stitches

Knit 6 rows

KNIT FIRST AND LAST FIVE (5) STITCHES OF EVERY ROW!!!!

Row 1 - K

Row 2 - P

Row 3 - K5, (K2 tog) 3 times, *(YO, K1)6 times, K2 together 6 times. Repeat from *           2 more times. 

         End row with (YO, K1)6 times. (K2 Tog) 3 times. K5

Row 4 - K

Do these 4 rows for the pattern.

Knit till piece measures 59 inches or how ever long you would like the shawl to be.

Then Knit the last 5 rows.

Bind Off. 

I got the pattern in a book I was reading called The Unlikely Yarn of the Dragon Lady by Sharon J Mondragon.  

The book was about a group of women who knit prayer shawls.

The idea of a prayer shawl is that while it is being knitted you pray for the person you are giving it to.  Then when they put the shawl on it is like you giving them a hug and a prayer.