Top-Down Shawls: 12 Lace-Knitting Patterns

This book is an excellent choice for an experienced or inexperienced shawl knitter. The patterns are given with gauge/type (sport, fingering, etc.) of yarn and charts ( as well as written instructions, for those of us who have problems decifering charts). The 12 shawls come in styles varying from solid (nice and comfy warm) to Lacey (light and elegant).This book will be a solid staple in my knitting library and is an excellent choice for a novice shawl knitter.

There are 12 patterns of different styles and then a 'design your own section'.Yes it is an American book but the needle sizes are easy enough to look up. Yarn Sub also works well if you want to know more about the original yarns used.

This book not only contains great shawl patterns in many styles, both charted and written, but tells how to make it bigger, if you like as well. A lot of care has been taken with each pattern detail. As a bonus, there's a section on how to easily design your own shawl. Very, very pleased!

Beautiful patterns and wonderfully clear instructions.

I’m really looking forward to making some of these shawls, you can customise each one if you want. Beautiful pictures and helpful instructions make it worth the money.