The yarn needed for this pattern is variable, You can make it as big or as small as you like, and use up all your bits and bobs.
I had two skeins of wool yarn with splices in it. I hate splices. So when I take my yarn from skein to ball, I always cut it when I find a rough splice.
These particular skeins wound up in 7 balls of varying sizes.
I found some other wool yarn in complementary (and complimentary) colors, and just started knitting, from smallest ball to largest, and stopping when I felt like changing colors. As you can tell, I changed with a color order in mind, but random would look great too.
On to the pattern:
Yarn: as much as you can gather. Remember, washing instructions should match the most vulnerable of the yarns you use.
Needle: Use the size closest to the average thickness of your yarns. You can also use smaller yarns doubled to make a nice plump stitch. I used size 10.5 for this project.
Cast on 3 stitches.
Row 1: Knit every stitch until last stitch. In last stitch, make an increase (of your choice) I did a knit in front and back loop increase.
Rows 2 - last one: Repeat row 1.
When shawl is big enough, bind off loosely. A nice easy loose bind off is:
Knit two stitches, place back on left needle, knit them together through the back loop, *knit 1 more stitch, place both stitches back on left needle, knit the two stitches together through the back loops* repeat between * * until you reach the end.
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Here she is all sprawled about:
1 comment:
THANK YOU for sharing this pattern! I run a Prayer Shawl Ministry at my church and was looking for an easy triangle shawl pattern to use up donated yarn in varying quantities. This should hopefully work perfectly!
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