Footprints Shawl is included in Less Traveled Yarn’s Handmade: Slow Fashion Inspired by Arizona’s Five Cs pattern collection (also available as a digital download here).

Footprints has a simple triangle shape, with an all-over mock cable pattern. It is inspired by the cattle theme and depicts a field as seen from above, where cows on pasture are walking side by side in straight lines leaving their footprints behind them.

Construction:
This shawl starts with three cast-on stitches, it is then worked back and forth in rows increasing at one side until the desired depth is reached, then decreasing on that same side until just three stitches remain to bind off. It also features an integrated garter stitch border.

Finished Measurements:
62”/155 cm wide and 21”/52.5 cm deep

Yarn:
Less Traveled Yarn, DK (DK; 75% SW Merino, 25% Nylon; 245 yds / 224 m per 100 g skein)
Yarn A: Mallard; 3 skeins
OR approx 728 yds/665 m of DK weight yarn.
Held together with:
Less Traveled Yarn, Kid Mohair (light fingering; 72% Kid Mohair, 28% Silk, 459 yds/420 m per 50 g skein)
Yarn B: Mallard; 2 skeins
OR
approx 630 yds / 576 m of light fingering weight yarn.
Both yarns are held together throughout the piece.
Kits for this shawl are available here.

Gauge:
19 sts and 25 rows = 4” / 10 cm in Motif 1 and 2 with both yarns held together on US 9 / 5.5 mm needles after blocking.

Needles:
US 9 / 5.5 mm circular needle, 24” / 60 cm length
Always use a needle size that will result in the correct gauge after blocking.

Notions:
Locking stitch marker (1), stitch markers (10), scrap yarn to use as lifeline, tapestry needle, measuring tape and pins to block shawl to measurements.