Fig. 239. Rainbow shawl
Rainbow Shawl ([Figure 239]).
Either Saxony or floss may be used, about six skeins of white and half a skein of each of the colours used being necessary.
To form main part of Shawl.
Ch 68 sts of white.
1st row—Turn and work back thus: Draw out st on hook about three-fourths of an inch, pass hook under the single thread of wool, draw through st, pass it under wool, work a sl st, 1 ch (in the way you work first st of every row). To make second st* pass hook through second, draw up to three fourths of an inch, catch the wool and make 2 close ch: repeat from * to end of chain. Turn and repeat from first row till you have worked 76 rows in the white wool.
To make the Rainbow Stripe on either end of white.
Fasten in the pink wool and work two rows, then in the order named—yellow, orange, light green, dark green, indigo, light blue, violet. Finish the end with two or more rows of white.