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That depends on many factors, the shape of shawl you are trying to make, your gauge and the type of yarn you are using.
For a rectangular shawl, or stole, decide whether you want to knit the length or width. Personally, I knit the width of the stole and continue until it's long enough, but the direction of the stitches changes the look of the shawl.
Determine how wide you want your stole to be, say 24 inches. Cast on 10 stitches and knit a few rows. Measure how wide your swatch is, say 6 inches, and do a little math.
(Finished width / width of swatch) so (24 inches / 6 inches = 4 times the width)
So, you multiply your stitches used, 10, by the number of times larger you need your piece, 4, and you cast on 40 stitches.
It works the same if you want to work the length of the stole. If you are not needing a specific size, you can cast on about what looks right.
For a triangular shawl, it can be easier to start, but you have to keep track of your rows.
1. Cast on three stitches.
2. Knit all. Place a stitch marker on the now empty needle. You can leave it on the needle without ever passing it back. You can also use two different colored needles or put a little waste yarn into the last stitch in this row. You are simply trying to keep track of which row you re on.
3. Knit the first stitch and cast on a stitch, the method doesn't really matter. Knit the next stitch and cast on a stitch, knit the last stitch.
4. Knit all 5 stitches.
5. Knit the first stitch, increase, knit the next three, increase, knit the last.
6. Knit all 7 stitches.
7. Knit the first, increase, knit to the second to last stitch, increase, knit the last.
8. Knit back.
Repeat rows 7 and 8.
By increasing one stitch in, rather than in the last stitch, you have a smoother edge to the shawl. Just keep alternating an increase row with a knit even row until the shawl is as wide as you'd like. If you find your shawl is getting too wide for the length, increase less, if it's not wide enough, increase more often.
An alternative to 2 increases on every other row would be to increase one on every row. I'd still increase near the edge, just decide if you want to increase at the beginning of the row, or the end.
You will need 45 casted on stitches.
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Free ripple crochet pattern for a shawl?
I've included some links below for instructions on doing a ripple stitch pattern. You can choose any stitch pattern you like and turn it into a shawl. Figure out how many stitches are in a repeat. Make a test swatch to determine how wide a repeat is. Figure out how wide you want your shawl to be and divide that by the number of inches in one repeat to determine how many repeats you need.
How many stitches should be cast on to knit hand warmers?
That depends on the thickness of your yarn, the size of the needles, and how tightly you knit. Make a gauge swatch about four inches square. Measure the width of the square and divide your number of stitches by the number of inches (in decimal form). That tells you how many stitches are in each inch. Now measure around your hand. Subtract 15% from that measurement, then multiply it by your stitches per inch. That will tell you how many stitches to cast on for hand warmers. You may be wondering why we subtacted 15%. This is to give the hand warmers "negative ease." We want them to be a little clingy so they don't slide around or fall off, so we make them a wee bit smaller than our hands. Don't worry, knitting is stretchy, so it won'd bind or be uncomfortable.
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