A Colorful Way to Knit a Shawl

I once knit part of a scarf with little odd balls of yarn, and every time I changed color I also changed stitch pattern.

That’s the exact idea behind the Color Adventure Shawl, designed by Tonia Lyons, but instead of using odd balls it calls for a yarn with really long color runs.

You could do a similar thing if you have longish bits of leftovers from other projects, but it’s not quite the same. The pattern does give suggestions for how much of each yarn you might like to have in order to make it work with stash. But you do lose a bit of the excitement of not knowing when you will change colors.

Either way this is a pretty and fun shawl that uses fingering weight yarn and lots of easy stitch patterns to make a really cool shawl.

You can get the pattern on Knitty.

[Photo: Tonia Lyons.]

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Brioche knitting, also sometimes known as English rib, is a popular way to add a lot of texture to knitting projects. It can be a little intimidating when you’ve never done it before, but once you get the technique down it’s lots of fun to do. And it creates the squishiest, warmest fabric, so it’s great for fall and winter accessories like these.

Mirella Moments has a whole collection of English rib knitting patterns, including the hat pictured here, a headband and an infinity scarf.

These would be super as gifts to knit now and have on hand for the holidays. You can knit all three and give them to three different people, or gift them all to one person, or keep them for yourself. No one is judging here.

All of the projects use worsted weight yarn but they come out looking chunky because of the knitting technique, which involves yarn overs that are worked together with the next stitch on the next round so there’s not a visible hole, it just makes the fabric really stretchy.

You can practice working the stitch flat if you like, but it’s not any more difficult to do in the round. If you’ve never done it before you might want to start with the headband pattern here before moving on to a bigger project.

The hat and the headband both come in three sizes for adults (the small would probably work for a teen) and the infinity scarf is one size but you could adjust it to be bigger or smaller if you like.

These projects are so pretty and relatively easy to do, too, even if you’ve never worked brioche before.

You can find all the patterns, complete with photo tutorials, at Mirella Moments: hat | headband | infinity scarf.

[Photo: Mirella Moments]

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