As the sun sets in the desert, temperatures drop quickly, and the sky fills with brilliant color. It can be helpful to have a shawl to bundle up in. This shawl is a crescent-shaped shawl with a simple, soothing stitch pattern that is perfect for soothing winter knitting.
This shawl was originally designed for sport-weight yarn and larger needles. It has now been updated for finer yarn and smaller needles, and it includes additional instructions and features that were not previously available.
Materials and Specs
One size, adjustable. The sample is 80” (203 cm) wide by 17.5” (44.5 cm) tall at its highest point. Knit in fingering-weight yarn, 850 yds (778 m). The ample was knit in Bad Sheep Yarn Fingering, in the colorway Bluebonnet.
4” (10 cm) square = 22 stitches x 50 rows in pattern One set of 32” (81 cm) circular needles in a size to match gauge listed above. The suggested needle is size US 4 (3.5 mm)
You'll need one stitch marker for beginning of round, plus optional additional markers between pattern repeats. A tapestry needle is needed for weaving in ends. This is an intermediate pattern, using decreases, increases, garter tab cast-on, and picot bind-off.
Other Similar Patterns
- The Shortbread Shawl, which is also crescent-shaped and has a picot edging - The Baluster Socks, which use the same eyelet stitch motif - The Plenitude Shawl, another very soothing shawl pattern