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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?

A Shawlette with a Ton of Design Options

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette. 

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up). 

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley. 

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design. 

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like. 

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going. 

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]