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Learn to Knit a Center-Out Shawl

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tri-light shawl vickie howellTriangular shawls are a lot of fun to knit, and a little scarf or shawl worked in this way is perfect for this time of year, while a bigger version will be great when the weather is cooler.

Either way, Vickie Howell and Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts have got you covered. There’s a cute little scarf called Tri-Light that you’ll find on the Bernat website (you’ll also find it on balls of her cotton yarn(ish) yarn), and you can check out the technique and lots of fun variations in a video Vickie did for Jo-Ann’s YouTube channel. This video will show you the basics so that you can knit the Tri-Light with ease or take the technique and give it your own spin.

Watching this really makes me want to cast on a shawl! How about you? I’d love to hear what you’re working on.

[Photo via Bernat.]

 

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  1. I have made this scarf according to the pattern but it is very short.
    Question: Once you have 173 stitches on needles and change to circular needles do you immediately do edging?
    Also it calls for 2 balls of yarn but following the instructions you only need 1.
    Please advise any help would be appreciated.
    Thanks

Have you read?

Use Your Sock Yarn Scraps to Knit a Colorful Scarf

Using your yarn stash is important to me throughout the year, but as I start to feel the end of the year coming on I get more excited about using things I already have in the house. Maybe that’s because I don’t want to go to a store in the thick of holiday shopping times, or I like the idea of having a little space in my stash when the new year rolls around.

It’s super satisfying to use up all the little odd balls you’ve made over the year (or years), and I have several stash busting blankets I work on when it’s cold and will maybe finish someday.

If you’d like to start a stash busting project that’s perfect for using up odd balls, check out the Soukish pattern from Neisha Abdulla. This pattern is made for fingering weight/sock yarn, and it’s worked in a tube with allover color work.

This is great for a couple of reasons. You don’t really have to weave in your ends when you can hide them in a tube (this is one time you might even get by just tying a knot when you change colors!) and you can change colors whenever you run out of yarn and it will look good.

Of course the pattern is made with blocks where the designer changed colors, but you can change yours more or less often as you need to make it work for your stash. You can use blank charts to design your own color combinations, or even your own stitch patterns if you like. You can also adjust the length of the scarf as needed or turn it into a cowl based on the amount of yarn you have.

This project looks like a lot of fun and would be a great thing to have on hand to stitch up and then to wear during the cold, gloomy months.

You can get a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Neisha Abdulla]

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