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Simple Shawls for Winter and Beyond

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I really just want to knit nothing but shawls right now. They’re so fun, and a great way to build different knitting skills with something that you can wear and use all year long (if you’re cold all the time like I am).

Here are a few shawls on the easier side of the spectrum that have caught my eye recently.

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The Simple Lace Shawl from Lion Brand Yarn uses three panels of knitting, simple eyelets and a multicolored yarn for an easy pattern that doesn’t look as easy as it is.

The Botany Lace Shawl from Araucania (available free with membership at Love Knitting) looks pretty easy, too, and the ruffled edging keeps it from being or looking basic but still doesn’t add that much fuss.

Universal Yarn’s Stained Glass Triangular Shawl (PDF) is another pretty project using a multicolored yarn. It’s worked in tiers of garter stitch triangles, giving the project a chunky, warm look.  Looking for more Stained glass style knitting patterns? Check these out on Etsy.

And the Shadow Capelet from Blue Sky Alpacas (PDF), though technically a poncho, is a great little project that uses reverse stockinette stitch stripes for lots of interest and texture. I really want to knit this one in a bunch of different colors.

See anything you like? I’d love to hear about it! And come back tomorrow for shawls that kick up the skill level a little more but are still great fun to knit.

 

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  3. I have made the Stain Glass Triangle Shawl. It was lovely & my shawl loving daughter treasures it BUT, the pattern is incorrect. I found the pattern on Ravelry & there were all kinds of comments from people, who had made it, about needing to stretch the shawl (when they blocked it, which is a must with this shawl) to make it the right size. Bad. I then checked the stitches per inch against the supposed width & length this would produce. The pattern was incorrect & more diamonds need to be added in the first row to give the right width & also the right length because of the added diamonds. I contacted Universal yarns ( a very strange site) about the pattern being incorrect but they never got back to me. I also posted a heads up on the Ravelry comments section on this project. Don’t be put off by what I have written, just make the corrections, by adding extra diamonds to the first row (using stitches per. inch rule) & away you go.I also made it with the Poems Socks yarn & it is truly beautiful with its subtle gradation from one colour into another. It you think it through this shawl can be also made as a modular knit which will mean you don’t have to stitch it all together at the end. Have to work on a pattern for this I think.

Have you read?

Learn a Flower Bobble Technique to Knit a Fun Shawl

Generally I like knitting patterns where I feel like you can use whatever yarn you have (because my stash is big enough and I want to use it, thanks) and make a successful project. This is one of those times when a special yarn makes the process that much easier. 

The Floral Bouquet Shawl from Xandy Peters uses a specific extended color pooling yarn from Feisty Fibers, which allows you to place the bobble flowers with increasing frequency as you knit the project. 

It starts with a solid color yarn, then the two color yarn is added in, and you make a bobble whenever you encounter the color pops. This would be hard to replicate with other yarn that doesn’t have the extended color pooling built in.

The background of the shawl is ribbed, making the project reversible. 

The shawl uses fingering/sock yarn and comes out to be an asymmetrical triangle that’s 54 inches/137 cm long and 36 inches/ 90 cm deep and 60 inches/150 cm across the top edge. 

Xandy says the pattern is for intermediate to advanced knitters. Knowing how to work traditional bobbles would probably help, but there’s a great video tutorial for how to work the floral bobbles so you can practice on other yarn or even incorporate the bobbles into other projects. 

The bobbles are five-petaled flowers but they also kind of look like starfish to me, which could be fun on a child’s cardigan or other pattern. They’d also be fun on the leg of a sock or around the brim of a hat for extra whimsy. 

The pattern includes photo and video tutorials, and written and charted instructions. It also includes tips on what to look for if you choose to use different yarn for the project, and instructions on how to dye your own yarn to use in the project. 

If you want to give it a try, you can find the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Xandy Peters]