This easy shawl pattern is ideal for using up leftover yarn from your stash.

Simply select five balls of any 8ply yarn—four in one colour and one in a contrast colour.

Knit the first three according to the pattern and finish up by alternating the last two balls in contrasting colours. It doesn’t matter how many stitches you have before starting on the contrast colour - just count your stitches and refer to a handy table that tells you which row of the edging pattern to start on. No yarn is wasted.

You can use a different yarn weight, or more balls of yarn. The pattern is flexible enough to work with what you have.