This is the pattern that started it all. The original. The first. The crazy idea that exploded into a series of four patterns. This new version of Traveling Woman contains instructions for 11 different sizes in 5 yarn weights: lace (medium, xlarge), fingering (xsmall, small, medium, large), sport/dk (xsmall, small, xlarge), and worsted (large, xlarge). Instructions are divided up based on yarn weights. Yarn informa- tion, gauge, and needle sizes are provided with each in- dividual set of instructions. All of the instructions use the same charts except for lace weight. Lace weight instructions have their own charts.
If you wish to do custom sizing, there is a section at the end of the pattern with information and formulas. A special section for adding eyelets to the body of the shawl is included in this section.
The Traveling Woman pattern is part of the Traveling Woman Collection. You can purchase the pattern individually for $6, or as a part of the collection for $20. Information about the free version can be found here.
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Traveling Woman pattern, $6 USD – or - Traveling Woman Collection, $20
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So to break it down: you get 11 sizes in 5 yarn weights with row-by-row stitch counts, written and charted instructions, instructions for adding eyelets, and instructions for custom sizes. For $6. That’s more than I know what to do with to be honest.
Lace
Sizes: Medium (470 yards), XLarge (570 yards)
XLarge knit in Little Red Bicycle Penny Farthing Lace (shown in Seaglass) < 1 skein
Fingering
Sizes: XSmall (310 yards), Small (380 yards), Medium (440 yards), Large (600 yards)
XSmall knit in The Plucky Knitter Merino Cashmere Nylon Fingering Weight (shown in Queensway) < 1 skein
Sport/DK
Sport sizes: XSmall (250 yards), Small (335 yards)
DK sizes: XLarge (520 yards)
XLarge DK knit in Femme Fatale Fibers Lilith DK (shown in Mystic) 2 skeins
Worsted
Sizes: Large (390 yards), XLarge (500 yards)
Large knit in Malabrigo Rios (shown in Pearl Ten) < 2 skeins
Information about the free version can be found here.
Welcome to feministy.com, the website of designer Liz Abinante. I like to design fashionable knitwear garments and accessories for women. I also teach. I'm best known for my original shawl pattern, Traveling Woman. I try to design each pattern with multiple options so knitters can use a different yarn, gauge, or needle to create the project of their dreams. 
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I have a question about your Travelling Woman shawl. BTW, I love the pattern!
I am still in the beginning section of 2 and 4 increases and what I have on my needles is triangular. I realize that it’s supposed to be triangular but from the pictures of the finished piece, it looks like the neck edge (which is the beginning 3 stitches, right?) is straight across. But on my needles it’s just a pointy little thing and gets wider per row.
What am I doing wrong (I’m on my 20th repeat of rows 3 and 4. Aren’t I working down toward the bottom of the shawl? If so, then the top of the shawl, the beginning 3 stitches are way pointy and flares out as the increases are being made.
I sure would appreciate your help before I get too far in the wrong way. Thank you.
Cheri, if you send me a picture of your shawl I’ll be able to help you out. Without a picture, I’m afraid I’m a little lost as to what you’re describing.
Just want to tell you how nice it was to meet you at Stitches West. What a treat. I love my (your) Traveling Woman Shawl. It was my first shawl and I’m so proud of it. Thanks for a great pattern.
I have a question regarding the lace part of the pattern. When it says “s1K2p”, does the p mean psso? In other words do you “slip one, knit two, and then pass the slipped stitch over”? Thanks for your reply in advance.
I have a question on the instructions for the A and B sections of the shawl. The written and the charted do not contain the same information? On row 4 in the chart the instructions apear to be k2 yo p3 k1 p13 k1 p3 yo k2 on the written should it be k2 yo work stitches in pattern (k the purl stitches) yo k2
Please reply
Thanks
I am at the bind off stage. I want to make it “pointy”. Does that happen folllowing your bind-off row instructions on the pattern?
thankyou
I am getting the same thing that Cheri was getting from above; on the Traveling Woman Shawl in DK weight. I took it out after the 4th repeat of 3-4. I am going to start again. Please let me know if this is suppose to be a triangle with the three original stitches resting on one needle as we work the others on the second.
Thank you.
I have the same issue as the woman above, with the slk2p, does that mean slip one, knit two together, pass slipped stitch over?
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