200-year-old Easy Zig-Zag Lace

Central panel of a 200-year-old Shetland Isles shawl pattern. Pattern (and picture) can be found at www.antiquepatternlibrary.org in a book called Beehive Shawls.

The original calls for a slip, knit, psso (skp), but the pattern translator gives slip, slip, knit (ssk). You may want to try it both ways to determine which is easier for you.

Shown with a cast-on count of 20 stitches.   Getting chart...

  • Row 1 (RS): *K1, [yo, ssk] 3 times, k3, repeat from *.
  • Rows 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12: K1, purl to last st, k1.
  • Rows 3 and 11: *K2, [yo, ssk] 3 times, k2, repeat from *.
  • Rows 5 and 9: *K3, [yo, ssk] 3 times, k1, repeat from *.
  • Row 7: *K4, [yo, ssk] 3 times, repeat from *.