Experience Level: Advanced Beginner
Take all those odds and ends from your stash and create a one-of-a-kind triangular shawl with alternating stitch patterns. Not only is this a great way to use up odds and ends in your stash, it’s a fun way to play with color and keep your interest piqued in a project. The pattern is written like a recipe to design your own shawl with 4 different stitch patterns that you can alternate as desired: Garter Stitch, Stockinette, K1P1 Ribbing, and a Diagonal Lace Mesh.
The pattern includes step-by-step instructions to recreate the two sample shawls I made (though my yarn choices would be difficult to replicate).
Construction Details
The basic construction of this shawl is simple: begin with the top center of the shawl and increase out towards the bottom edges, changing stitch patterns and yarns as desired. This shawl is like magic because it uses fingering, sport, DK, and worsted weight yarns. How? Combining one strand of fingering and one strand of DK weight makes the equivalent of worsted; holding two strands of sport together does the same. So the shawl is technically made with worsted weight, but the magic is in the stranding!
Techniques Necessary
• Organizing weights of yarn (instructions for determining Wraps Per Inch are included)
• Cast on Tutorial video here for the cast on I suggest
• Knit
• Purl
• Yarn Over
• Decreases (k2tog, ssk)
• Bind off
Size options: Varies based on knitter’s taste and yarn quantities. The sample shawls in the pattern measure approximately 54” wide x 26”
Yarn: Worsted, DK, Sport, and Fingering weight yarns in various quantities. If made entirely with worsted weight, about 850 yards is needed for an average-sized shawl.
Gauge: 16 stitches = 4” in stockinette and garter stitches using worsted weight. Row gauge is not critical to this project, and will vary from stitch to stitch.
Needle: US 9 (5.5mm) 40” circular needle or size needed to obtain gauge
Additional Materials: four clear baggies, tapestry needle, 2 stitch markers.
