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Master Short Rows with this Easy Shawl Pattern

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Master short rows with the Yin Yang Shawl from Patons.Short rows are commonly seen in socks to help make the heel, but there are lots of other reasons you might want to stop a row short and knit in the other direction. It’s a great way to shape all sorts of things, including shawls.

Vickie Howell and Yarnspirations have teamed up to teach you all about using short row shaping in a cool (and on-trend) triangular shawl pattern known as the Yin Yang Shawl. This one is worked in two colors of the new Patons yarn Denimy, which recalls the acid-washed ’80s, but I would love this shawl in solid-colored wool, too (and may even be knitting it that way soon).

If the pattern itself isn’t clear to you or your need a little more help with the techniques, Vickie has done a 12-minute video that goes through all the necessary techniques to get this shawl off the needles and around your shoulders in no time.

Have you ever worked short rows in a shawl or elsewhere? How do you like the technique?

[Photo via Yarnspirations.]

 

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  1. After writing out the pattern I watched your video. I was a little confused when it said to leave unworked stitches on a spare needle. I was envisioning all of these spare needles with all of these unworked stitches. Phew that is a relief to understand.

Have you read?

Knit a Fish Pouch, for Reasons

I can’t resist a pattern that’s both useful and a little silly, and that’s exactly how I feel about the Rybka pouch pattern from the delightfully named Rat and Sea Witch.

I know you’re going to ask, because I did, too. Rybka means little fish in Polish. (And because you’re also probably going to ask, Rat and Sea Witch comes from people’s attempts to say the designer’s name, Ratasiewicz, which if you say it fast kind of sounds like rat and sea witch.)

It’s easy to make a little fish bag in different sizes to suit your needs. The pattern has specific instructions for an Airpods Pro case and a pencil case, but you could change the length easily to hold more stuff, and change the size in general by working with a different weight of yarn.

The pattern calls for sock yarn and mohair held together to make a fingering weight gauge, but you could try it with heavier yarn and see what size bag you end up with.

Whatever size you make it, this looks like a fun project for holding trinkets or everyday items. The mouth of the fish is the mouth of the bag, and it closes with a drawstring that is also the strap. I wonder, too, if you could make one of these with a small clasp frame that could be the fish’s mouth and then you could just work I cord straps that would attach to the sides of the fish.

I could also see stripes, or fish of different colors to use up your yarn leftovers. How about a sunglasses case with a little loop to attach to your bag? Once you start thinking about all the ways you could use a fish-shaped bag in your life, I think you’ll see that you probably need more than one.

If you make one of these I would love to know how it went!

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Rat and Sea Witch]