Dive into your collection of fingering weight yarns and knit this scraptastic brioche shawl. The simple semi-circular shape is knitted top-down in the syncopated brioche stitch. One color is changed every 2 rows to create the scrappy striped effect. This project is perfect for leftover fingering weight yarns from your other shawl and sock projects. The pattern is written for a large shlanket size, but you can easily knit a smaller version by skipping ahead to the final row and I-cord bind off at any time.
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Hedgehog Fibres has a new pattern that you can download on their website.
Soft and cozy, perfect for your handspun!
I love handspun yarn combined with simple textures. I really enjoyed watching the colours shift while knitting this lovely oversized wrap. it comes together seamlessly at the end with a three needle bind off and a garter stitch border with a cute picot cast off.
Yarn
For this shawl I spun one 250g pack of Hedgehog Fibres Lucky Dip Fibre in ‘Pastels’. I ended up using 230g of finished yarn which comes to approx. 966m (420m/100g).If you are not using handspun, 2 row stripes with colours of choice would look really pretty. For a similar lofty feel, I would recommend Hedgehog Fibres Oh So Fine Merino (100% Merino, 425m/100g) in a choice of 4 colours, A, B, C and D (or more).
Here is a link to the Oh So Fine that we have in stock. You can also play with your remnants of yarn to make this shawl. The pattern suggests 5mm needles so I think you could knit it in DK weight yarn or you could knit it with a skein of fingering weight and a skein of Mohair/Silk.
It’s Friday morning and I’m writing my post early. I think we’re going to be really busy tomorrow and I won’t want to write when I get home but I want to share these new patterns with you. Happy LYS Day and I’ll try and write again on Sunday with pretty LYS day pictures.
