Knit a Giant Shawl to Keep You Cozy

After sharing summer shawl knitting patterns the other day, I decided to go in completely the opposite direction for this one.

The Tigris Shawl by Olga Fahim is a big old shawl. It’s a triangle that measures 82 inches (or 210 cm) in wingspan and is 35 inches/85 cm deep at the center of the triangle.

It’s worked in stockinette stitch with a garter stitch edging, so it’s great meditative knitting you don’t have to pay that much attention to if you don’t want to.

The shawl has three color sections, including a solid section of each of the main colors and stripes that switch positions at the center of the shawl.

It’s a really striking look and not all that hard to do. This is actually a great way to practice how to knit intarsia because there’s only one color change in each row.

I love the combination of a sandy color and black on the sample, but of course you can use any two colors you want, whether they be high contrast or more coordinating. The pattern calls for sport weight yarn and here uses a camel yarn, which is a lovely luxury that’s sure to keep you warm all winter long.

And in case you’re wondering at the name, the Tigris of course is a river, and the designer says the fabric of the shawl is flowly like a river. Also using the name Tigirs is a little bit of a play on tiger for the striped section of the shawl.

If you’re in a part of the world where it’s cold now, this would be a great project to work on and snuggle under as you go. For those of us in warmer climes, it’s a great way to get ready for cooler weather ahead.

You can find the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Olga Fahim]

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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