Knit Yourself Some Sunshine with This Fun Shawl Knitting Pattern

Sometimes when I’m scrolling through Ravelry something will just catch my eye because it’s weird or pretty or fun or cheerful.

The Sun Sun Sun Shawl from Åsa Tricosa is definitely pretty and fun and cheerful.

It’s an asymmetrical triangle with a narrow lace border along one side and a deeper lace border along the long bottom edge.

The lace design looks a bit like shells, or flower petals, or maybe even the sun coming up over the horizon after a long, cold, lonely winter. (The shawl is in part inspired by the song “Here Comes the Sun” as well as a way to honor the life of artist Steve Harley, who died earlier this year.)

The lace is known as Peri’s Parasol in a version in a Barbara G. Walker book, so you could think of it as little umbrellas to protect you from the sun, too.

Whatever way you imagine it, this design also uses garter stitch with some slipped stitches thrown in for extra texture on the body of the shawl. The pretty yellow color and mohair-silk yarn also evoke the sunshine, but of course you can use whatever color you like, and indeed whatever sport weight yarn you have handy to make the shawl.

Or try it in a different weight for a different look, feel and size.

As written the shawl has a 79 inch/200 cm wingspan and is 59 inches/ 150 cm long across the top. It uses between 1367 and 1476 yards, or 1250 and 1350 meters, of yarn.

The design uses a crochet cast on, and the lace design is provided in a chart and a written pattern.

This is such a pretty, lightweight shawl to wear throughout the sun, sun, sunny months, or even when it’s cold and gray out and you need a little burst of knit sunshine.

You can get your copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Åsa Tricosa]

6 Shawls In A Ball Patterns

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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